A rainy Family Day on the west coast was a perfect day to read Moone Boy: The Blunder Years by Chris O’Dowd and Nick V. Murray. Featuring...
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While the rest of the world was watching the Seattle Seahawks lose the Super Bowl on Sunday I was walking on Gonzales Beach. Wolfie dog in the...
No we are not talking about the rivalry between Eugenie Bouchard and Maria Sharapova! I ran into Orca author Michelle Mulder today and we chatted a bit...
Just got my sample of Forgotten English A Daily Calendar of Vanishing Vocabulary and Folklore from Sellers Publishing. My favourite words thus far: glottened – suprised; startled;...
Almost mid- January so time to start implementing those New Year’s resolutions. Here is one that only takes seven minutes: Based on the New York Times article ...
9781423632702 Ahh – back to work after many days of feasting and celebrating. Lots of boxes to open but I must confess I stopped dead when I...
Our Christmas tree is up, but a work in progress. This year’s Noble Fir is a departure from the more traditional bushy tree shape and is causing...
Last Saturday I attended one of my favourite Christmas events – the annual Victoria Truck Parade. A fund raising event for local food banks, the truck...
On the way back from dropping my son, (working member of the geek community,) at the ferry terminal the other day, I heard a great interview...
Congratulations to authors Ashley Little , Ailsa Kay and their respective publishers, Arsenal Pulp and Goose Lane Editions! These two books have been longlisted for the...
Just finished day three of our Vancouver sales conference. The publishers are providing great information on forthcoming titles as well as an amazing amount of chocolate. ...
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the...
What do you hear once you put the helmet on? Stanley Kubrick got it right! “When you get into space and you get into the suit and...
Having spent a lot of the weekend raking and piling leaves on the boulevard I have been contemplating trees this week. In my neighbourhood increasing demand...
I just got my copy of Molly Watson’s Greens + Grains published by Chronicle Books. It’s full of inspiring recipes with great colour photos. You can use...
After a weekend of feasting I thought it might be interesting to ponder a new book from New Society Publishers: The Emergent Agriculture is a collection of...
Science has never been my strong suit but I did watch a lot of Bill Nye the Science Guy when my kids were growing up. I loved...
After a glorious summer and fall we had a bit of a rainy day here on Vancouver Island. With a shorter greyer day one feels a definite...
http://http://www.enneagramquiz.com/quiz.html What’s your enneagram? I just received a sample of Inner Spaces – Paul Vincent Wiseman & the Wiseman Group published by Gibbs Smith. It...
I just finished reading On the Edge – Edward St. Aubyn’s novel about the New Age movement which is coming out from Picador next month. Set mainly...