As many of you don’t know and therefore don’t have the capacity to care, I am a card carrying adrenaline junkie. Since the days of Evil Knievel I have thirsted to live life on the razor’s edge. I became somewhat disenchanted a few years ago when I heard Knievel wasn’t truly evil. He just acted [...]

I have lived on Salt Spring Island for almost 10 years. I have been coming here for 25 years, mainly because my dad was generous enough to pay airfare on an annual basis. No, I’m not trying to define whether I am a Salt Springer or not. Believe me, I will go [...]

February is the calendorical (my new word) equivalent of being stranded on the moon with one other person and no functioning toilet; just the two of you and very little gravity. February is the only month that doesn’t have a stat holiday here in British Columbia.  You can’t really blame it [...]

It’s lucky I like to talk to people. Every time I write an article the only thing I am afraid of is that I didn’ teither, a) make someone mad or 2) make someone laugh. I really can’t stand it when someone makes a list that looks like the one I just wrote.Please people, for [...]

Heads, oil spill, tails rabbits. Heads. Ok best two out of three. I don’t want to do the oil spill because its career in show biz is as dead as the ecosystem it took with it. Besides, who wants to sit and stare at a live web-cam of a capped oil well? To be honest [...]

Understand dear reader how hard I tried to avoid writing this article. Believe that I laboured to think of anything else to write about. Small dogs, air travel, bear hunting and advanced concepts in gossip were some of the alternatives. However, an opportunity like this arises only once every four years so I have to [...]