Feb 15th, 2012
VO's resident psychic forecasts what lies in store for the last half of February.
Feb 3rd, 2012
I saw the first crocus last weekend. It was bedraggled and had been beaten into the ground by snow and sleet, but it was fully formed, and showing traces of bright purple. I took it as a sign that...
Feb 2nd, 2012
Not getting the love that you want? Dr. True Love might have just the prescription for you.
Dec 8th, 2011
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Jun 30th, 2011
“Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes [at a certain Vancouver beach?], and the right kind of day is jewelled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you...
Jun 17th, 2011
June is definitely raccoon season in Kitsalino. Every evening last summer, a raccoon hung from the rafters of a house in my neighbourhood, driving the crows insane. Last week, as I was walking my dog...
May 13th, 2011
Hockey lingers, but in spite of it we can feel the warmth and promise of summer around the corner. This all brings mellowness, mellowness as is only expressed on the West Coast. It’s time to slow...
May 5th, 2011
The “merry month of come what may” has arrived and my Yorkshire terrier, Siriuss (as in Sirius Satellite Radio and the dog star), greeted May with such enthusiasm that he jumped off a second-storey...
Apr 15th, 2011
“April . . . Hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” —William Shakespeare Now that we are totally up to our ears in Vancouver’s pink snow, we begin to believe that the miracle of spring is...
Apr 6th, 2011
First the howling blizzard woke us, Then the rain came down to soak us, And now before the eye can focus— Crocus. —Lilja Rogers The “howling blizzard” part of that little piece may not totally apply...
