I’m going to see my friend Deirdre in a play tonight. Dee, as I call her, is one of my best girls in the building. At our new year’s gathering she told us she was going to try some things that scared her in 2013. Now Deirdre has a dry […] Read More
My friends know that I have a thing for bathrooms. Compost toilets of course and double seated outhouses, but I also happen to know where the nicest bathrooms in Vancouver are (my current fave is the Cactus Club in West Van). I suppose it’s my preoccupation with waste in general, […] Read More
When I was in Victoria for an education conference last week, I met up with my old friend and roommate from my undergrad days at the university there. Claire and I had lived near each other just outside of Penticton during high school so we hung out a bit then, […] Read More
I love the parking system they have in Victoria. The parking spaces are numbered and you can then pay at these little kiosks that are on every corner. You pay for a specific period of time (coins, credit cards and city-issued smart cards are accepted) and then if you are […] Read More
I’d walk a mile for a good cup of coffee. I would even take a ferry ride. And that’s exactly what I did last week, so I could visit my old friends and coffee vendors Yoka and Tristan in Victoria, BC. Yoka’s, as their café and coffee roaster is called, […] Read More
The City is promoting their expanded food scraps recycling program, right at eye level, at grocery store checkstands. So when you’re piling your fresh fruit and veggies onto the conveyer belt, you are reminded about the green bin program. Big check mark for the City on this clever advertising vehicle. […] Read More
A friend and I were strolling along the waterfront downtown recently and I caught my first glimpse of the new-ish Vancouver Convention Centre green roof. I had never seen it from this angle. How wonderful that you can actually see this roof, unlike the one on the library that only […] Read More
There’s been a zombie outbreak in popular culture. Movies, books, and zombie apocalypse websites are all over the internet, perhaps inspired by the 2003 book by Max Brooks, The Zombie Survival Guide. I attended a program management planning course recently. My team decided to design a bunker for the zombie […] Read More
Recently, I needed a bag of Sea Soil to top up my community garden plot, so once again I employed my trusty wheels. At the garden store, I decided to get a trellis too. I was able to strap both bulky items on to my little trolley. I walked the […] Read More
I have been doing some reading lately about community engagement and how universities are sometimes viewed as beautifully landscaped, isolated islands that are disconnected from the community. Yet, many academics are very involved in helping to solve real world issues, although their institutions rarely reward them for their efforts. The […] Read More