Category: Life Musings

  • The Water’s Edge Festival Returns to Coquitlam

    Water’s Edge Festival is returning to the Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam from February 25th to the 27th of this year. The Water’s Edge Festival is part of the BC Spirit Festivals, a new initiative, funded by the provincial government which will see celebrations taking place all over the province in February, 2011. So what…

  • Wordless Wednesday for January 5th, 2010

  • Adventures with the Fridge Door and More

    Today Brown Bear discovered that the fridge door opens. And then with some effort… And finally “success” Ironically, the first thing she grabbed from inside the fridge door was the hot sauce. She promptly left that behind. She felt the need to call a friend to see just how dangerous it is. Sadly for her and…

  • A Happy New Year’s Day at Kits Beach

    Today was one of those days that you just look back on and laugh at. Of course, like every other day around our place it started at 0600hr; it doesn’t matter if it is the first day of a new year or the last day of the old year, it begins at 0600. The plan…

  • New Year’s Eve 2010/2011

    Here we are on the eve of 2011. My goodness, it seems like just yesterday that so many people (not me of course, I never would have bought into that foolishness) were bunkering down for the coming disaster of Y2K. The sales of candles and canned beans must have been extraordinary in the months leading up…

  • Baby Molly Campbell in BC Children’s Hospital

    I just saw on this evening’s news that there is a one month old baby (her name is Molly) in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of BC Children’s Hospital with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, a cancer of the white blood cells. Our baby girls (now 20 month old toddlers) were born in BC Children’s in…

  • The Best Child Raising Advice of 2010

    Now that 2010 is nearly over I thought it would be neat to have a look back at all the kind and generous words of wisdom on child raising that have been offered to me by family and friends. The above photo sums up our year quite nicely; a little blurry, a little struggling going…

  • Best Advice of 2010…Coming Soon…and So Much More!!

    We have almost completed compiling the best advice of 2010…with any luck it will be posted tomorrow, the 30th of December. Stay tuned!! We are also working on a Food and Drink file after a delicious visit to the Romana Restaurant in North Burnaby; We are also working on a number of posts for our…

  • Want to Make Money With Your Writing?

    Ad giant Phil Dusenberry put it best: “I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes.” From The Age of Persuasion; How Marketing Ate Our Culture. By Terry O’Reilly & Mike Tennant Not so coincidentally, I bought a copy of The Age of…

  • Merry Christmas and All that Warm-Fuzzy Stuff

    Hey all, I hope you are all with the ones you love or at least loving the one you are with on this wonderfully special evening. From my home to yours; Merry Christmas.