This year’s Rust Magic Street Mural Festival in Edmonton contributed two huge murals to walls on 118th Avenue. One is at the Edmonton District Family Support Association and the other is at Optimum Auto Service. In addition, a few other small street murals popped up at the Carrot […]
This morning, Julie stepped outside to go to her massage appointment and found her car . . . gone! She looked up and down the street, and couldn’t see it. It must have been stolen, she thought. Just to be sure, she called Ken to check where he […]
We tend to think of mental health as an all-or-nothing kind of thing. You either have it or you don’t. Lately I’ve been thinking that there are so many contributing factors to mental health that it is surprising that most of us have most of them most of […]
When you go to a museum with old people, you don’t see artifacts, you see memories. I had the pleasure of visiting the Innisfail Historical Village yesterday in the company of a busload of people on a summer outing from the North Edmonton Seniors Association. We […]
If a Klondike gold trader put her thumb on the scale to benefit the prospector and not herself, you would think she was crazy, wouldn’t you? Why would anyone cheat to lose? Well, that’s what I’m wondering about with respect to our elections. Not only are our election […]
In November 2014 I made a big change. I sold my house in Red Deer, Alberta, and together with my eldest son and his fiancee, bought a house in Edmonton. I had really enjoyed living in the Red Deer house, but it was too big for me as […]
While walking on 103rd Avenue in Edmonton, I came across a wonderful collection of murals on a cinderblock structure by the service entrance to the Bell Tower high rise office building. I don’t know what the structure is for, but it is large, rectangular, and has no windows […]
I am a snowbird who travels south for the winter. When I get there I have a bird of paradise plant on my patio.
