I don’t really have anything to blog about today, but wanted to put something up to get the last cheerful Stanley Cup post off the top of the screen. However, I have no wish to provide links to the Vancouver news today. For some reason I wasn’t keen to join 99,999 others downtown – whether our…
The good news about hockey is how much silly fun we are having with it in Vancouver. Some good writing is coming out of it too. Cam Cole of the Vancouver Sun wrote … “Lapierre wasn’t going to get the [penalty] call if Chara’s stick had gone in his front and come out his back. Because the evening’s…
Yes, I know – this book was published in 2007 and was reviewed all over the place then. But I only read it last week. True story of an American hairdresser who opened a beauty school in Kabul, to teach Afghan women a skill they could use to better their lives. The book was mildly…
Did anyone say that we have to blog about things we actually do? No? Good, so I can blog about things I might like to do someday. And I can embellish the post with semi-relevant links that you can waste your time following. After all, I have wasted quite a bit of time finding and linking them…
This is a book I didn’t know anything about when I picked it up at the library – it is worth reading. I’ve since learned that the author is one of China’s best and boldest novelists. I’ll have to look for some of his other books. The basic story is about village where many are dying…
For 100 years, my family gossiped about the identity of my great-great-grandfather. Presumably he was named Charles Waddell, since those two names were given to the child who took his mother’s surname (B) when he was born in 1860. According to lore, the erstwhile father was an officer in the military, based at Windsor Castle where the…
Warning: If you don’t like diets or iPhones, STOP NOW. Don’t read any further. Since my iPhone is pretty much my best friend, I decided to look for a diet and exercise app we could do together. I found a free app, LOSE-IT! http://www.loseit.com/ . When I entered some vital stats and set a goal of 5 pounds over 5 weeks,…
Here is quite a funny piece about the follow-up to a speeding ticket in Britain.
Seeing Clarely 