Life on the Sunshine Coast has come full circle with the start of the Sunshine Coast Writers Festival week in Sechelt. I moved here in the summer of 1987, …
Mom Buys a Motorcycle
My soon to graduate youngest daughter says our family story would make a great counterpart to Modern Family. We have these episodic cycles full of pathos, giddy humour, black humour, …
Calling All Makers!
The Sunshine Coast Mini Maker Faire Wants You! The faire wants you to bring your creations out of the workshop and out of your labs and into the sunshine of …
2016’s Strange Alchemy
Goodbye, 2016. I will be happy to see you go, bringer of change and struggle and letting-go-ness. In January we began again a new cycle of life on the Sunshine …
The Facebook Gap: Weltschmerzing Madness
Recently I was compelled to furrow my way to a temporary exit from the lemming like existence of Facebook. The trigger was an entirely unsatisfactory exchange with my eldest daughter, …
Rosemary Hoare, June 27 1921 – August 3, 2016
roey’s kitchen everything and everyone loves roey’s kitchen… the hummingbirds, stopping at the window, the dogs, sleeping on the stoop, lolling under the circling wings of the eagle, and otter, …
Book an “Explore the Wild” Summer Camp Date on the Sunshine Coast
The Sunshine Coast Salmonid Enhancement Society recently launched ‘Explore the Wild” Summer Camps of our local creek, forest and ocean ecosystem through scientific investigation and inquiry, exploration and observation, creativity, outdoor …
Hot Diggity Dog: Shirley Macey Dog Park Grand Opening
Official Grand Opening Celebration of the Shirley Macey Dog Park! DATE: Saturday 25 June 2016. LOCATION: Shirley Macey Dog Park, Gibsons, BC. TIME: 11am – 3pm The SCRD and …
Coast Maker Faire coming May 29
Wow, it is a seriously fun time to be a ‘maker’ on the Sunshine Coast. Coast Makers, a local group of committed enthusiasts in the popular Maker movement, has amassed …
A truly tech day on the Coast
It’s no surprise to anyone that Diane and I are ‘techies’. In the grand scheme of techie classification, Diane ranks as ‘Geek’, while I come in slightly behind at ‘Nerd’. …