I’m back in the city again, waiting for grandson #2 to arrive. It’s an exciting time, for sure. Yet I want him to stay put for just a few more days until we wrestle all the items off the “to do” list. But the truth is, no one ever is […]
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My son is a master potter. He begins with an ugly lump of clay, puts the lump on his wheel, and then spins the clay with deft hands. From there, he fashions a beautiful vase, an elegant teapot, or a Goliath-sized bottle—sometimes more than six feet tall. And it all […]
Across the Sunset Country region, muskies are the fish species that comes to mind when people think about big fish. It’s for good reason because we have some of the best musky fisheries in the world right here in our backyard. Lake of the Woods, Rainy Lake, Wabigoon Lake, and […]
There are times that you often regret not doing something. I hadn’t thought about this until I received a call from Irene Baranowski at my cottage on the weekend. Her husband, Mike, had been determined that I should catch a musky and for the last few years, we have arranged […]
Ever since my 25th birthday, I have been fascinated with the process of aging and have tried to figure out what it takes to age well. As I have mentioned in this column before, turning from 24 to 25 was traumatic for me. All my life, I had been hampered […]
I like to stay in B&Bs when I travel; more specifically, B&Bs of the historic kind, where you leave the current world behind and you sleep inside walls that could tell a story. Walls that have seen lives come and go and stand firm against change. Some communities are rich […]
The 27th-annual Kenora Bass International went down as one of the best ever this past weekend on Lake of the Woods. Some 140 teams participated in this year’s event—the highest number in several years. The weather also was great throughout the event and by the time things were said and […]
There are many entries on my list of things that please me—my list of favourites, from frogs singing at night to my beloved dandelions in May with their magically-curling stems, floating perfectly still on the surface of a lake (preferably Rainy Lake) on a hot summer day, bushes filled with […]
Just as the horse-and-buggy changed the mode of transportation, driverless cars are set to change our lives dramatically in the coming decades. We already have witnessed the self-parking vehicle. And Google has pioneered a fleet of cars that currently are travelling hundreds of thousands of miles to prove they are […]
Well, it’s official—on Friday night I finally cut the last of my hay. I had high hopes that with a couple of sunny days, we would have it all baled up! When I saw the weather forecast for Sunday, I tried raking and baling some late Saturday night but it […]
As a New Democrat, I’m a proud supporter of the “sustainable development” of our natural resources. If you are wondering why, then look no further than the massive ecological disaster that occurred last week at Imperial Metal’s Mount Polley open-pit copper and gold mine in British Columbia. The United Nations […]
In 1966, almost 50 years ago, our family moved halfway across the continent for a job. My husband had just finished his Master’s degree at the University of Alberta and had been invited to teach at a small church college in the middle of the United States. The thought of […]
