We’re getting there
By Blake Allen I could begin just about anywhere in the Okanagan, but instead I’ll start on the...
Read MoreBy Blake Allen I could begin just about anywhere in the Okanagan, but instead I’ll start on the...
Read MorePosted by Dona Sturmanis | Mar 11, 2016 | Rearview
I promised Laurie, my editor, I wouldn’t joke about working in pyjamas when she suggested I write...
Read MoreLike Scrooge’s undigested bit of beef, Kathryn’s imagination is driven a little whacky...
Read MorePosted by Shelley Wood | Oct 15, 2015 | Rearview
I like your hair,” my friend told our harried waitress, who could have smoothed a fast hand over...
Read MorePosted by Shelley Wood | Oct 13, 2015 | Rearview
Forget your many pots on the burner, lines in the water, irons in the fire: I am going to tell you...
Read MorePosted by Shelley Wood | Jul 15, 2015 | Rearview
An ever-growing number of museums, monuments, and amusement parks have announced that visitors...
Read MorePosted by Bruce Kemp | Jun 15, 2015 | Rearview
“I eat, therefore I am.” Descartes didn’t say that—I stole it from him and paraphrased just a bit....
Read MorePosted by Shelley Wood | May 8, 2015 | Rearview
Thirty years ago, my mum put my brother and I on a plane in Vancouver to meet my father in...
Read MorePosted by Bruce Kemp | Apr 15, 2015 | Rearview
My wife and I recently watched in horror as scenes from Mosul in northern Iraq were broadcast on...
Read MorePosted by Patti Shales Lefkos | Mar 15, 2015 | Rearview
“What do you mean I’m only allowed one bag?” I asked the check-in counter clerk at the Cathay...
Read MorePosted by Shelley Wood | Oct 14, 2014 | Rearview
Shelley’s attempt to escape her instant information addiction has some interesting side effects...
Read MorePosted by Shelley Wood | Jun 11, 2014 | Rearview
Shelley shares the horror of a devastating bike accident that changes lives, and her outlook. We...
Read MorePosted by Shelley Wood | Feb 25, 2014 | Rearview, Travel
Shelley takes a risk. Will she find a new way forward by retracing old steps? Tomorrow I jet off...
Read MorePosted by Shelley Wood | Dec 17, 2013 | Rearview
The last time I took a piano lesson, people were pointing bulldozers at the Berlin Wall. I haven’t...
Read MorePosted by Patti Shales Lefkos | Aug 26, 2013 | Rearview
Nothing political about this soothing cuppa “Where there’s tea, there is hope.” Printed on a...
Read MoreI find shopping painful. My wife would rephrase that. To her, I’m just a painful shopper. But...
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