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Living with my wild animal neighbors in a remote area of north central British Columbia, Canada. In this blog I relate stories of the wildlife that live around me, some memories,observations, travels and computing experiences plus other topics as the
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A School for Ghosts
When I was rooms manager at the Qualicum College Inn, a hotel in Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island, we would often participate in trade shows. Specifically those for the hospitality industry and the ...
Just one of my career ventures
When I was twenty-five, and lived in Vancouver, I joined a company newly arrived in Vancouver called Figure Magic. They were a health spa chain that was extending right across Canada and into the USA....
They did not wrestle a giggle out of me
David at authorblog just wrote a post called L is for Levi’s about his modelling experiences and it reminded me of my own brief experience. I was about twenty-three and living on my own near Sta...
Sunday Scribblings - Photo
I found this meme on Danielle’s blog and thought it would appeal to me also. Sunday Scribblings, this week the writing prompt is Photo This is the only picture I have of my Mother, Noel, and my...
Heads or Tails - Love
Skittles started a meme every Tuesday called Heads or Tails, basically she provides a word and we can interpret it however we like. It seems an obvious choice to choose Love this Valentine’s we...
Canadian, on hold
We have been landed immigrants since we arrived in 1968, and probably would have remained so, because it was convenient, but because of more stringent regulations regarding traveling abroad we decided...
Remembering Dustbunnies
I was reading a post today at ‘The BiPolar Diaries‘ where she was having an issue with dustbunnies and it reminded me of something. When I was a struggling single mother I was always look...
You are not a failure for trying
It seems that at the end of every year we tend to look at what we consider our failures and make resolutions to do better in the New Year. We have got ourselves caught in a performance trap, we have b...
Looking back at 2007
I was tagged by Beth & Cory’s Mom to take a look back at 2007, taking the first post of each month but I changed that a bit and just selected some posts. January - Moose hair on the c...