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I need good things to listen to while I ride away the stress of life on my exercise bike. Today I listened to This American Life, recommended by one of my Facebook friends. This week was Scenes from a Recession – and I quote the prologue from the website: “Host Ira Glass notes the sub-industry...
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The staff and students of this East Vancouver school are working in portables in the field. Construction trailers line the street. Police and parents are monitoring traffic and there is a “walking school bus” program for families to drop their kids at a nearby high school. This is one of eight seismic upgrade projects now...
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It’s impossible. Don’t bother trying. Haha. Just kidding. You could always go for a rainwalk, as writer kc dyer called it today on Twitter. She took a rainwalk with her dogs and I did one with my son. We carried my big umbrella (a doorprize!) and rainwalked to our favourite cafe, then to the...
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Underneath all this colourful pizazz is a chocolate cake requested by a three-year-old birthday boy who loves guitars. It was made by Jen, mom of my son’s younger brother and sister. For the past few years, she’s had so much fun with these cakes that she’s thinking of making and selling them. The wee...
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Andrew Scott never fails me when I need a gift idea. During the past several years, I’ve probably spent many hours chatting with him in the toy store about kids’ gifts and all kinds of random topics. Andrew works at It’s All Fun & Games – a beloved toy store in my neighbourhood –...
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“Thats’s so random!” I never know what I’ll see on my iPhone camera after my son’s been using it. Yesterday I found this super-cool drawing on it after our trip to JJ Bean. He’s also taken some interesting shots of the painting on the south wall of Continental Cafe (which is worth a...
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Update: Mar. 7, 2010 – Due to concerns re: permission to use Jeff’s image for this poster, Jesi asked me to remove the image. A redesign is in the works… Emily Carr design student Jesi Carson had a school project to create a poster commenting on an issue facing Vancouver. She emailed me last week...
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This worker is taking down the big fence around Trout Lake – and this is happy news for the people in our neighbourhood! The southwest corner of Trout Lake park has been inaccessible since before the Olympics. Now the big fence is coming down and it looks so good. The kids and dogs can...
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