SENSE AND NONSENSE

  • WILDFIRE INFO MEETING LAST NIGHT

    I went to the wildfire information meeting at Stelat’en Hall last night. Of course we were all hoping for good news about the two big fires affecting our area. But the only good news at all was that the monstrous Island Lake fire which has caused the evacuation order of Nithi Valley and Dahlgren Rd…

  • If I Were Cook at the Legion

    Well, I hear the Legion is in need of a new cook once again and my old camp cooking muscles are twitching. Not twitching much because they would find me dead on the kitchen floor after the first hour. (Actually I think I could last 2 or even 3 hours, if I had a nap…

  • LETTER TO OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES (from Fraser Lake Legion)

  • THREE YEARS HAVE PASSED

    Three years have passed since his deathday. I feel nothing, as if the horrific event never happened. Some other family standing around. Him on oxygen, not saying much. The baby looking worried. The grand-niece in her gum-boots. Me, chatting up a storm. Other patients in worse shape than him. Some still alive. Some not. Tuesday’s…

  • DAY TRIP TO JERUSALEM

    Day Trip To Jerusalem [SCRIPT TO GO WITH SLIDE SHOW] Mar. 9 We had lined up a tour of Jerusalem via a travel company . Had to leave Haifa on the 5:30 am. train in order to catch the tour bus leaving from a hotel in Tel Aviv. Our guide that day was a perky…

  • VICTORIA DAY ANTICS

    1999 Sense and Nonsense Today I commemorated the birth of Britain’s longest reigning monarch by kneeling, scraping and bowing in the drizzling rain, as I attempted to uproot weeds in what will one day be the garden at our newly acquired acreage.  While I reposed upon the dampening soil, my derriere shielded by a garbage-bag-encased…

  • BERRY PICKING BLUES

    It is the middle of August and my berry picking muscles are twitching. Last month I was laid up and missed out on the gathering of what I hear was a super-abundant crop of larger-than-usual wild strawberries. Luckily for me the huckleberries which should be well past their prime, are just beginning to ripen. This…

  • ALBERTA CLICHES

    1999  Sense and Nonsense I caught the flu bug just before Christmas. Although my husband and I refrained from kissing and engaging in any germ-exchanging activities, he managed to catch it anyway.  We spent the holidays hacking and coughing and complaining, each one of us convinced that the other was not nearly as sick as…

  • HORSE SENSE

    1998 Sense and Nonsense I am from the generation that loves country and western music. The old stuff– not the guitar-busting, belly button revealing, new style of warbling. I like Garth and Shania but it’s the classic horse loving, gut-wrenchingly lonesome kind of music that stirs my country soul. Every once in awhile I like…

  • MYSTERIOUS MOBILITY?

    1999 Sense and Nonsense There are two things that intrigue me greatly at the present time: one is the crop circles that appeared last year in a farmer’s field in Vanderhoof, and the other is the mysterious mobility of our living room rug. I am beginning to wonder if the two circumstances are related. There…