Wild times in Vancouver over the past three months ... and I'm not talking about the club scene or hockey riots. We're usually known as the paradise of the north, and after a long, glorious summer and a delightfully mild fall, we felt understandably smug. Then ... WHAM! We were pounded in November with record rains that triggered landslides into ( Read more... )

If you follow Alan Rickman's career, here's an article about his latest film ... shot in Wawa, Ontario. Among the features of this tiny town is a giant goose. Beats a giant squid any day.

Enjoy!

Snapshots from the past two days ...

--a large house, complete with wood-burning stove, located in a very small town on Vancouver Island … dark, wet, and chilly outside
--before the champagne (below) but after a Caesar and a wee drop or two o’ red wine, an hour spent watching the first episode of Star Trek: New Voyages and laughing our heads off ( Read more... )

In no particular order ( Read more... )

Whew! I've finished and submitted one of my two term papers, an analysis of the "emotional work" involved in teaching online. My other instructor's given me an extension for the second project. R-E-L-I-E-F.

( A silly thought for tired brains . . . )

Try the Hogwart's Sorting Hat Quiz!

Chalk up one for Ravenclaw so far.

What I want to know is . . . who are the Slytherins?

From an editorial in The Globe and Mail for Fri. July 15, 2005:

Unless witchcraft was to blame, it is difficult to understand what persuaded a British Columbia judge to ban the public from discussing the contents of or even reading the latest Harry Potter book until its official release date. A book is not a corporate secret whose contents, once ( Read more... )