Hats Off Date in North BurnabyMy photos from North Burnaby’s annual Hats Off Day parade and street party. I’ve lived here for years but this is the first time I’ve actually checked it out. I encountered an old bus, creepy Scientologists and evil Conservatives.Hastings and Willingdon, Burnaby, BC35 photosOnce a year they close off Hastings [...]
A couple weeks ago I visited my old friend Steph in Nanaimo. We went to a silent auction at the Royal Canadian Air Caedts hall where she won some yoga stuff and I won a $50 gift certificate to Future Shop. It was a wonderful weekend but in my rush to catch the ferry I [...]
Khan in a dress!Self explanatory!Burnaby, bc5 photos
Many working class people fantasize about what to do when they win the lottery but a fantasy for many became today a reality for my housemate who won $10 in the lotto.
A week or two ago Housemate purchased what he described as a “222 ticket” who has since misplaced the ticket and receipt.
“I bought some [...]
Something kind of spooky happened the other day during a visit with my good friend Shantel.
We were having a conversation about my father, a somewhat intense one at that. I’m thinking of doing some writings based on his life experiences and was asking Shantel for her sage advice when I noticed one of the lights [...]
“I’ve accomplished all that I’ve set out to do, and then some. It’s now time for me to leave the woods and go home, to British Columbia. I move to the Vancouver area tomorrow.
Goodbye Ontario, I love you.” -Blog entry from August 31, 2005
It was four years ago today when I moved back home to [...]
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On the weekend my brother and I took a ride on the new Canada Line SkyTrain in Vancouver. We rode the train from Vancouver City Centre to Bridgeport in Richmond. The trains are wider than conventional SkyTrain cars. There is a lot of standing room as well as space for bikes or just curling up [...]
On Wednesday, July 22 former Canadian boxer Mark Leduc passed away in Toronto at the age of 47. He is best known for winning a silver medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. He came out in 1994, shortly after his retirement from professional boxing.
I met Mark Leduc during my first semester of university.
I was at [...]
I got this email last night in response to an article I wrote in 2006. I don’t know this person, and am not sure how or why they stumbled on my site but it’s cool to get feedback…
I just finished reading - Building a stronger two-spirited community by
Nathaniel Christopher.
First, Sporting spiky blonde highlights and [...]
I gotta start calling her “my father’s mother”. Whenever I say “my grandmother” people assume I’m talking about my mother’s mother who is very much alive, present and online…
“Oh! I didn’t know your Grandma worked as a sex trade worker,” they’ll say, with an image of my mother’s staid mother in mind. “She’s certainly come [...]
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