I worked in the lumber industry for over 17 years in northern B.C. It was the best of times and the worst of times — sorta like a cheesy novel. It was especially great in that I got to eat during that whole time, not to mention make enough money to begin my music...
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I’ve always been the kind of a person who loves to see what’s around the next corner, or climb another hill to see what’s on the other side. I was this way more sowhen I was young than now, unfortunately. Growing up on Salt Spring Island back in the 1960s, it was easy to...
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The other day, my wife and I began Spanish lessons. I figured that after struggling with the English language for fifty years, it was time to give up and try another one. (Sometimes a really bright light turns on upstairs and I really “get it!”) I always wanted to learn another language and started...
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Life is far more interesting when there’s purpose to it. I’m always amazed and saddened when I see those stumbling through their 70 or 80 years with no place to go, and no particular thing to do. I think that people who have a sense of purpose tend to live longer and healthier. They...
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I just returned from Costa Rica from a vacation with my wife. I love the heat, beaches, and the people there. It was so refreshing to get away from the craziness that goes on around here and be some place where the phone never rings, no one needs you, and the time seems to...
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Recently, while in Costa Rica, I took a day trip to another central American country just to see the culture and experience the sights. It was like going back in time quite significantly, and something I won’t easily forget. Some of the scenery was quite spectacular, as we got to look into a live...
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Sometimes you just have to do something a little drastic, don’t you? In Alberta we have, on average seven months of winter and five months of poor sledding, otherwise known as winter and construction season, or winter and July! This year, we cheated the final stages of winter and went to Costa Rica, where...
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Recently, we celebrated Easter… for the most part, this can be quite a confusing holiday. If you have never read my story of discovering Easter, I was one of those said individuals who was in the “confused” category. We were taught that Easter was all about Jesus dying on the cross some two thousand...
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My childhood years existed during the 1960’s… Bell bottoms, hippies, the birth of 10 speed bikes, transistor radios, and the space race. Before the space ship thing was even that popular, I was more interested in the “wild and crazy” cowboy shows that could barely be made out on our state-of-the-art tube-powered blackand- white...
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The last couple of weeks, I wrote about a plane ride from Smithers, BC to the northern end of Atlin Lake, which pokes it’s nose into the Yukon Territory. It was a very cool trip other than the few moments that could have proven to be disastrous. When you’re a hundred miles away from...
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