Xmas
I work in a big office building and last week there weren’t many people working on account of the snow and Christmas obligations. In my office there’s only four of us, and I was alone most...
Author: Nathaniel Christopher
I am a resident of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, who has been blogging here for nearly 25 years. I enjoy sharing my thoughts and feelings on my own online platform. From 1998 until 2017, I worked as a journalist, and I have posted most of my articles in the 'News' section of this website.
Burnaby
Snow in Vancouver!
Well, it’s a snow day in Vancouver. Vancouver is unique among Canadian cities in its perceived inability to deal with snow. There are so many Easterners (Canadians as I call them to differ...
New clothes!
So… I desperately needed new pants. I have two pairs of jeans that fit and both are full of holes. One pair has a pretty big hole in the under-croch area. If I’m wearing a decent pair of u...
Wisconsin Pasty Recipe
This recipe comes from my crazy friend “Dr. Kamino” from Wisconsin. It’s for a pasty, which is a popular meat-pie thing in Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. It is the funniest recipe eve...
Personal
Beware of the mailboxes
I was walking to the mailbox at work today when I slipped on some mud, lost my footing and crashed face first into the pavement below. Ouch! Fortunately, I was not seriously hurt. My face and head wer...
Former foster kids telling their stories
One of the issues I’m most passionate about is the rights of people in and from government care (foster care). There are countless of books, reports, articles and other literature written about ...
Portland, Oregon
Christmas is a challenging time of year for me. But instead of wallowing in something negative I thought it would be fun to create something new and positive this year. I really wanted to “jet a...
Vancouver Life
One year since I saw the Spice Girls
It’s been a year since I had one of the most magical evenings of my life. On December 2, 2007 the Spice Girls performed their first reunion concert here in Vancouver and I was there. The Spice Girls p...
A month off Coke
Well, not much else to say. I haven’t touched Coke (cola that is) for a month now. It’s been very difficult but I had to quit for the sake of my health. People always said I’d feel b...
People
Advent Calendar
So… my housemate was recently gifted with a lovely advent calendar. For those of you who don’t know, it’s basically this little cardboard book that marks the 24 days of Christmas. Fo...