My hopes of being a beekeeper instead of a beehaver are over.  When I held my ear to the hives in mid-February I was reassured by the low hum of buzzing inside.   The next time I checked all three were silent.  A quick heft of the hives told me plenty of honey was still inside [...]

  Ah, books.  I love them, I buy them, I have way too many of them.  I covet every piece of empty wall space as a possible spot for a shelf, which I then fill with even more books.  I also have an abiding love affair with trees.  Weeping, upright, shaggy bark, smooth bark, coniferous, [...]

Spring is coming slow here in northern BC with daytime highs of five or six and lows in the minus seven range.  The roads have turned bare and dry but the fields are still full of the white stuff.  It is slowly – oh so slowly – settling into the ground and filling the earth [...]

  Last week I wrote about a psychologist who recommended deliberately putting oneself into embarrassing situations to help overcome ones fear of humiliation.   While I found her theory interesting, I confessed I wasn’t the sort of person who needed to seek out embarrassing situations.  They find me just fine on their own.  Here’s just one [...]

  It stands to reason there must be people who are comfortable enough with attention and drama to tell the truth when they are hurt, but I have never met one.  Instead you will witness a human lose their footing on a busy street, tumble to the hard cement only to leap up and proclaim [...]