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In Indian Head, We are All Treaty People
The land acknowledgement was thought-provoking. I’ve lived in or been coming back to these Saskatchewan places for decades, but not for public events. I’m not used to hearing these sorts of words in these settings. It is the opening ceremony for a new exhibit at the Indian Head Museum (https://www.facebook.com/IndianHeadMuseum/ ) to commemorate this town’s […]
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604 Area Code
For those of you way out of the 604 telephone area code, this post may not be of interest. For those of you in the 403 and 306 area codes, this post may be of some interest. It’s all about food. And the quality of food. Those of you who know me personally, know that […]
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Top Ten Signs You Live in a COVID19 “Red Zone”
You surprise yourself with how shocked you are that servers in a restaurant outside your community are NOT wearing plastic gloves. Eating at home was never so appealing! In an effort to wash your hands long enough, you find yourself silently singing “happy birthday” twice because you’ve sung it out loud so much to prompt […]
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A Blog about Traveling that’s about Not Traveling
Granted, these are spectacularly strange times. Orwellian, really. Today was Day One…Ground Zero if you like that term, of a shift in perception. I should have been waking up in Orange County. Am I disappointed? Honestly, no. But I am in danger of getting bored, or going crazy. Now is a time to put the […]
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A Surprising “Welcome Aboard”
The BC Ferries tag line, “Welcome Aboard” has never been so fitting. I never thought these words would cross my lips about a government-run monopoly. “I’m impressed”. It really rubs against my fiscally responsible/socially progressive grain. Even stranger, for those of you acquainted with BC Ferries, this is the monopoly I am referring to. Admittedly, […]
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OMGOMGOMG
How incredibly stupid. The pink scarf’s “esteemed” standing is now in serious jeopardy. But I am getting ahead of myself. Our last stop on this fast-paced vacation is to get-up-at-3:30am to leave Mussoorie and catch our 7:20 flight to Varanasi in the eastern part of India. The mood in the darkened van as we wind our […]
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My Next Wedding
For a completely different scene, we went to one of the hill stations in northern India in the part of India that used to be part of Tibet, 7,500 feet up the foothills of the Himalayas. Specifically, a town called Mussoorie, where the Dalai Lama first fled in 1959 when the Chinese invaded. These hill […]
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Highways, Goat Tracks, and Perspective
So the patterns on my scarf are Sanskrit, I learned from my sister-in-law. And apparently my scarf has “come home”. A guide told me the writing was about one of the three “main” gods in the Hindu religion Shiva the destroyer…as in the destroyer of bad things. If you’re wondering, the other two are Rama […]
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