Rearview: Period promise

Rearview: Period promise

We can now call Aunt Flo by her real name: menstruation “Mom I NEED you!” I yelled loudly from the toilet so that I’d be heard through the bathroom door, across the hall, and into my parents’ bedroom. My mom was still sleeping. My dad, already up, responded, “Let your...

Rearview: Packing up hope

As seen in [downloads ids="156027" columns="1" excerpt="no"] Good nutrition fuels brain power. Are all BC children getting their fair share? Shoulder length messy blond curls framed her pale, almost ethereal face. Sad apologetically blue eyes, set deep against...

Tattoos: from rebel to conformist

Who decides where to draw the line? When Vernon personal trainer Stacy Fuhr completed her first sprint triathlon in May 2002, she celebrated by getting a tiny red and orange sunburst tattoed inside her right ankle. “It represents my accomplishment of something I was...

Rearview: The comfort of stuff

Rearview: The comfort of stuff Time for some spring cleaning My vacuum races across the carpet, zig zagging back and forth between blankets, coats and a pile of sewing I haven’t started yet. Papers and pens are crammed into drawers and cat toys are swept beneath the...

Penny wise: Confessions of a thrift store shopper

Back in the swinging sixties, I was six and still enjoying playground swings. It was not until I was out of my brown school uniform and had started working that I realized what I’d been missing out on, fashion-wise.      My hard-earned money went further after I...