Student's killer on parole
Charges after investigation
Hostage was on captor 
Regulating power prices
Gen X is raking it in
LeBlanc laying groundwork
US vetoes UN resolution
$100M Nassar settlement
12 Trump jurors picked
Rates slow green economy
Vicinity hires president,
Record housing starts
Warriors ready for Round 2
Kalamalka Bowl cancelled
Rockets live to fight on
Rihanna's parenting ‘hack’
Tarantino scraps film
Munn talks cancer battle
Old as dirt. Twice as gritty.
Chinese opera: good for what ails you
I sing in the shower. Mainly I sing opera, and a great deal of the time, the opera is Chinese opera. Truth be told, I’d be an opera star the likes the world...
Nouns on the run
Have I mentioned yet that I have a grandson? How old is he, you ask? Who can say. As soon as I’m able to remember his age he changes it. He isn’t quite five...
The drama queen: life with Angus
There’s this super-sized Border Collie dog who hangs around our neighbourhood. Every time I turn around, he’s there. I’ve come to know him pretty well,...
Five stages of life
Recent scientific research conducted at the Old As Dirt Institute has revealed previously unknown facts about stuff. Among other things, a cure for what ails...
Quiz time: Trippin""
My adoring readers have been bugging me to write a travel feature, they know I’m the one to ask, because I know everything. One reader wrote: “We can’t go...
Grandparent helpline: babies chapter
If you’re old as dirt, chances are that by now your kids have coughed up (relatively speaking) some grandkids for your amusement/entertainment. Now, someone...
The Greenway war zone
The Mission Greenway is a lovely trail, so peaceful, so tranquil, a place where nature touches the soul, friendly smiling trees shade you from the sun, and a...
Round and roundabout we go
About five years ago, Kelowna was blessed with its first roundabout, the one on Burtch, the ‘Blast-Thru Burtchenator’, as it is known amongst the ‘in...
One-time-only horoscoptical delights
By Jo ‘Moonbeam’ Slade You should be sitting down when I tell you this, and for heaven’s sake, don’t panic: I was visited by the astrological fairy...
Sizzlin’ summer test
Pass this test, or else no summer for you! Tsk! Summer has been an iffy thing this year, but as of tomorrow (on Canada Day, no less) summer will be in full...
The reluctant thumb
My previously white thumb has turned a sort of sickly pale green. It’s so pale that one could be forgiven for not noticing, but I can see it, and it troubles...
Trauma ahead!
It is a sad fact of life that boomers may finally be entering middle age. Well, more accurately: they are almost, possibly, maybe, sort of reaching the start of...
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