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Homeless in Fort Saint John 25 Jul 2012 | 06:35 am
I just finished eating a nice lunch provided by the Native Friendship Center. It consisted of a Big piece of shepherd’s pie Bun Pineapple juice Pudding Bag lunches are provided for anybody from a...
First Day of Vintage Advantage 13 Dec 2011 | 02:14 pm
Today was a short day. We only went five hours instead of the customary six. Still, there was a lot going on in those five hours. Gifts and tools – when we arrived we were each given a large binder t...
Vintage Advantage Starts Tomorrow 12 Dec 2011 | 07:04 pm
I’ve been accepted into an employment training program called Vintage Advantage. The purpose of the training is assist people 55 to 65 years old in finding employment or starting their own business. ...
Great Reads 9 Dec 2011 | 04:26 pm
Today was mainly devoted to cruising the interwebs, reading my favorite blogs and discovering a couple of new ones. Here are today’s picks for thought provoking content and excellent writing. My regul...
Occupy the world and take back our money 9 Nov 2011 | 05:47 pm
It’s funny to watch all the howling going on among the wealthy and the financial institutions about the transaction tax, as though them being forced to pay anything at all would bring the world to a s...
White Kermode Bears of British Columbia 4 Nov 2011 | 03:10 pm
This post is to introduce the Kermode Bear. I’ve always liked bears. Bears have been a part of my life since I lived on the Queen Charlotte Islands. Up there, bears were always just around in the nei...
Modern Amazons 20 Oct 2011 | 08:47 pm
The Amazons of Black Sparta This is the fourth, and probably final article about amazons. Unlike the other amazons I talked about in the previous articles, there is no doubt that these girls existed ...
The Amazon Series 20 Oct 2011 | 08:00 pm
It was Stieg Larsson’s book The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest that got me going on this fascinating topic. Each of these posts centers around a quotation from this book and expands on it. There ha...
The Amazons of Libya 18 Oct 2011 | 08:17 pm
This is the third post in my series about Amazons and Women in war. Again, the quote that follows is from The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson. The historian Diodorus from Sicily, se...
Did Amazons Really Amputate a Breast? 16 Oct 2011 | 08:00 pm
This is the second in the Women in War series that started with Women Have Always Gone to War. Again, the quote that follows is from The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest , written by Stieg Larsson. ...
