Last month I had the opportunity try a month-long membership at the Fitwells gym for women in Coquitlam – organized by Salma at TheWrite Balance.ca. Knowing my lack of enthusiasm for exercise classes and my need to get in shape and tone up, I decided that I couldn’t pass up on this opportunity.
If you haven’t had the chance to visit Applebarn Pumpkin Farm, have you wondered if you should drive out for a visit?
On a beautiful September day, with clear blue skies, my family and I recently joined the YVR Bloggers trip to AppleBarn Pumpkin Farm. It was a perfect day to venture out into the Fraser Valley and visit Abbotsford.
If elders weren’t around to organize family meals and be a magnet for socializing as larger family groups, would younger Boomers, Gen-Xers and young adults even get together?
If you want to establish a strong career, go east my friend. Do not start in Vancouver. Return when your career is launched.
Or so the traditional wisdom has been.
I can’t say that I expected the BC Teacher’s strike to be over by September. Yet I also can’t reconcile myself with the fact that negotiations hadn’t reached a point where mediation was possible by the end of the summer. Based on what I have read and heard, my instinct tells me that one side dug in their heels and became immovable.
Shirley Hardy*, Contributor The Parish of St John’s Anglican Church, Cobble Hill was started in 1887 when Sir John A.…
In a recent interview on the Today Show, actor Jennifer Aniston addresses the topic of marriage and motherhood. It’s refreshing to hear a high profile woman talk about how life can’t be planned out and it’s encouraging to see that she was invited to share her unique perspective.
Pamela Chan/BCFamily.ca/Editorial I love it! Somebody searched the term “embrace the weird” and landed on BCFamily.ca Sweet! Because it just…
Pamela Chan/BCFamily.ca/Editorial It is not the time when you would expect everything to hit the fan but that’s when…
As we mark the start of WW1 today – one hundred years ago – this war could seem to be one that is slipping into our collective distant memories. For my family, at least, it is a conflict that plays a central role in our family’s personal history.