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, …
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 …
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, …
Why I remember these Sunshine Coasters
It’s the start of spring after a long, dark, rainy winter that in our house was 12 months tied with a marauder’s bow, a year of hospitalizations, emergency surgeries, …
Getting Yarn Bombed – This I Can Drink
This is my friend Kim Kerr Fenton. Isn’t she gorgeous? Kim lives life big – big laugh, big love for her pals and customers, big in all the little ways …
Another me, another time, and grief
I found this today while looking over Brian Lee’s excellent Pender Harbour publication, The Harbour Spiel. What has this got to do with Laurie McConnell, you must be thinking. Well, …
I may be an idiot, but I’m no thief
Last night I had one of my favourite kind of experiences… driving a daughter to the ferry terminal. It’s always beautiful quality time – we listen to music off an …