It's never easy to realise your kids' teachers probably know all your secrets... that they probably know if you drink a lot of wine, have a potty mouth, or always sleep in until noon on a Sunday - because kids are leaky alibis. And then, you remember that their job is not to judge you, … Continue reading Mediocre parenting is good enough, yo.

Our love of recreation can become a pathway for connection. Shared by our friends at PORCA. Hope to some local outdoor enthusiasts there! This Wednesday, the Outdoor Recreation Council of BC's webinar series kicks off for 2021 with: WORKING IN A GOOD WAY Best practises and lessons learned for settlers and Indigenous peoples collaborating as … Continue reading Working in a Good Way: webinar for allies of recreation and reconciliation, Wednesday January 27 7pm

Sometimes, my wishes are petty (pause here: PETTY, not pretty, as autocorrect would have preferred. Petty as in small and mean) and I'm glad I don't have a genie hanging on my every word only to realize I've just squandered my opportunity to summon in world peace, so I can be bikini-buff AND eat a … Continue reading To wish one another well

Share your seeds. Share your starts. Share your successes. As Robin Wall Kimmerer said so beautifully, in this fantastic article about saskatoonberries and the economics of scarcity , abundance is at the heart of Nature. If you're feeling disconnected from that, if that statement makes you scoff and point to all the examples of famine … Continue reading Plan for a radical spring

On Wednesday, I saw that Pemberton Wildlife Association past President Allen McEwan had shared a post to the community forum, and it made me happy. Doesn't take much. LOL. It made me happy because I think our collective noticing is a real force... the things that we turn our attention to, individually, matter. That's how … Continue reading Indulge local birders… they’re a harmless lot. And happy, too.

The Pemberton + District Chamber of Commerce farewells two long-time (and dearly loved) board members, this year, as Julie Kelly and Graham Turner step down to make room for fresh faces on the board and new opportunities for themselves. As the Chamber just wrote in their January newsletter, "It's hard to put into words the … Continue reading Want to help make this community even better? Join the Chamber. Or the Board.

My deep thought for the day: love is like a U2 song. I'll try and explain. The morning started rough. It was not a sure thing that we were going to make a seamless extraction from bed, through the breakfast routine, to the school bus. Not a sure thing at all. Enter Significant Other, to … Continue reading Love is like a U2 song

When I first made a vision-board, it was like wrestling with an alligator. (I have not actually done that, although once I had to improvise it on a stage, which pretty much scared me off theatre-sports for life.) From the outside, I might have just looked like a woman serenely sitting at a table, flicking … Continue reading Zoom into a free vision board workshop via the Library, Monday 25 January, 7 – 9:30pm

A colleague alerted me to the dispiriting fact that yesterday was Blue Monday - apparently the most depressing day of the year, as coined by a life coach and psychologist Dr Cliff Arnall by computing the combined effect of multiple downer factors including bad weather, dark nights, post-Christmas debt and failed New Year's resolutions. The … Continue reading Yesterday was Blue Monday. Which makes today Rainbow Tuesday