I began working with Father Gerry Guillet in the early 1990s, soon after I moved back to Vancouver from Winnipeg. Gerry is a Catholic priest from the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The order hired me to work with Gerry to document some of their work with First Nations. Gerry had […] Read More
I met Linda a couple years ago at a fitness class at our community centre. We were the slowest walkers and bonded as we walked around the track. We are around the same age and turns out both of us were contemplating going back to school to do a Masters. […] Read More
I’m a pretty big fan of bike art, so I was delighted to see these creative trellises at the Mt Pleasant Park Community Garden last night. I was there doing a compost workshop for their garden members. They just installed a lovely wood and wire three-binner and wanted to start […] Read More
The land that Earthwise Farm sits on has a long and turbulent history. For decades, developers have tried to do what developers do, develop the land. The Southlands, located in Tsawwassen, a part of South Delta, is not in the agricultural land reserve, but the municipality has designated the 537 […] Read More
I recently gave a compost workshop at the Evergreen’s City Hall community garden. In addition to walking through the compost basics, I recommended a procedure for managing compost bins in a group setting. Always a challenge. I also mentioned a couple of other opportunities that would help the City to […] Read More
I just renewed my passport. I also needed a certified copy as I was applying for exemption from US taxes on e-book revenues. It took me four trips to the passport office and a half hour on the phone to the IRS. As I said to the IRS guy, this […] Read More
I noticed these cool recycling stations at the Kits Street Festival yesterday. The logo on the side of the bins said Green Events Chair, I thought. I asked the attendant if I had it right, she nodded. Then I asked if there was a web site. She wasn’t sure, she […] Read More
Over Christmas of 1987, I travelled to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico with my then boyfriend. I dubbed it our break up holiday and had already picked my theme for the coming year: clean slate in ’88. I knew the relationship was over a few months before we left. I remember […] Read More
Two summer composting workshops coming up. The first one is this Sunday at Evergreen’s community garden on the City Hall lawn. The garden is extending the invitation to the community, so feel free to register even if you’re not a member. The second workshop will be held at the Kitsilano […] Read More
I met Megan in a first year French class at the University of Victoria. We sat in the front row together and inhaled our professor’s Gitanes weekly. We soon became friends outside of class, partly through taking lifeguarding courses together. One November weekend in preparation for our National Lifeguard test, […] Read More