The Winter season in Vancouver can get the best of you if you let it. Sure, ski season is bliss for most, but let’s face it, not everyone can spend all day every day on the slopes! Oh, to dream. Then there are those of who aren’t really snow bunnies at all. I took an early retirement years ago and…
Have you ever picked up a set of knitting needles? A few years back, there was no way I could ever conceive of sitting in one place long enough to knit something even slightly recognizable. It’s not that I didn’t have the patience for it, I’ve been known to spend something like sixteen hours braiding my hair (in my pre-university…
Marrakech. My memory has whisked me right back to the dusty alleys of the Medina. Morocco was only just barely on our radar. It’s not that neither of us wanted to see it (my partner and I), we were just worried that we wouldn’t have enough time to really see it. After spending two months in Southern Africa, it seemed…
Who doesn’t love waking up in the morning to find that their hard work has been featured somewhere fabulous like Bloggers.com? I tip my hat, give you a nod and send many thanks for choosing my blog to be an Editor’s Pick. I only just wandered into the ‘blogosphere’ a little less than a year ago. It was a project…
Well, I’ve officially made it! Spain. Ever since I was little, and laid eyes on a picture of Gaudi’s unfinished Sagrada Familia Cathedral, I’ve wanted to travel to Spain. I imagined smoky cafes brimming with savvy tourists and robust Spanish locals bantering back and forth about football scores while sipping away at steaming cups of mezcla. So far, even with a…