Category Archives: Top Picks

Greetings, Happy Labor Day.  If you can believe it, it’s September already. Where did the summer go? I don’t know about your area, but there’s a nip of fall in the air here now.  It’s cool, though luckily the smoke … Continue reading →

August might just pass me by if I’m not careful. The days are whizzing by and our area has been in the midst of a heat wave this past week. It just reached the hottest temperature ever on record here … Continue reading →

Summer is busy, is it not?  It seems Canadians try to fit everything they can do into a short summer season — and now I’m guilty of this too. I’ve got too many things in the frying pan so to … Continue reading →

Hooray, we’ve made it to June and the full summer is ahead of us.  It’s the best time of year here if only it could last longer (the northern summers are too short!).  Still it’s enough just to make every … Continue reading →

Greetings. I was away last week playing in a tennis tournament in Victoria, B.C., so I’ve been absent from the blog for a while. I flew over the mountains to the coast and should have taken a photo coming in … Continue reading →

I hope everyone had a nice Easter and/or spring break. We were in the mountains last weekend where we had a lovely couple of days of cross-country skiing.  There’s still plenty of snow out there and the track conditions were … Continue reading →

Well it’s March now and we have quite a snowstorm underway presently. It’s pretty and white at the moment but surely it will be a mess later. I’ve been shoveling the walkways like a banshee to no avail. It’s falling … Continue reading →

Ahhh February. The month of Valentine’s Day and all that lovey-dovey. I hope you take advantage of it. Get out the chocolates. It’s bitterly cold here right now, criminy: stay indoors! And it appears the Super Bowl is an all … Continue reading →

Well I’m a bit late with my look at this month’s releases, but I was out of town so now I’m trying to catch up. I was in Colorado for a memorial service of a dear friend I worked with … Continue reading →

Happy New Year & 2018! I’ve been looking back at what I read and listened to last year and came up with these numbers and favorites below. I finished two books during the Christmas holiday — the first being Sebastian … Continue reading →