BufferPeople in Edmonton live interior lives. By which I mean, relationships and integrity are important. You don’t find as much posing or pretension as you would in a Toronto, or a Vancouver or, for that matter, a Calgary. Whether or not that is true, Edmontonians are modest about their city. It’s a nice place to live, [...]

BufferEdmontonians don’t shy away from winter – well, that’s the official stance, but I’ve met quite a few that do. Nevertheless, the Winter Light Festival is designed to scare away those winter blues. It is actually a series of community events held over successive weekends in the depth of winter. Last weekend we attended the Deep [...]

BufferSkating on Thursday has become very difficult. The first week was painful. Ben and Ella fell so many times that their knees were black and blue. For the second week, I had upgraded the skates and got kneepads. They fell almost as often. No one was having fun. So, when we arrived at skating yesterday there [...]

BufferI am not going to overreact, but we awoke this morning to a dusting of the white stuff. LA reacted as expected: “!;?&%, it’s snowing.” Ben and Ella were enthusiastic about getting dressed in their boots and coats and hats and mitts. I had to take the van in for an out of province inspection today [...]