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Aside from a few setbacks earlier this year, the past few months have been exceptionally good to me. I have a new apartment that I love, a dog that has come into my life as though he’s my kindred spirit and everything else just seems to be falling into place.

I was reminded of this the other day as I locked the door to my apartment with a smile on my face after having said goodbye to my darling love. I turned towards the elevators and was dumbstruck by what I saw.

I’m not one for superstitions, but in Las Vegas, 7-7-7 means only one thing: ka-ching! Okay, so I’m not exactly Miss Moneybags, but between a great job and my newly implemented budget (which is going great, by the way - who knew living under restrictions would be enjoyable?), but a whole lot of other wealth is coming my way.

Lately my brain has been in overload mode with hundreds of ideas, ambitions, goals, targets and so much more that I’m just generally really excited about. I feel like I hardly have the time to write it all down with so much brainstorming going on! Between the newly carved path to financial freedom I’ve been traveling and a huge boost to my true sense of self, I find myself nothing less than on a complete stoke.

It’s said that the best way to live a life of accomplishment, met goals and “success” (define that as you will) is to truly envision what that looks like for you as an individual…

…I want to travel to New York and to California.

…to purchase an economic car and to buy a small home for Jordy and me.

…I want to be smart with the money I’m blessed with, be solely responsible for myself and have more residuals for retirement and charities that I feel passionate about.

…I desperately want to write a cheeky, “fictional” novel à la Star and who cares if it never gets published?

…I want to feel a deepened sense of spirituality in my life in the everyday, not just in the urgent moments.

I’ve become keenly aware of how much I am capable of and what I can achieve. While I suppose I could sit around and hope, wish and pray that someone or something would create happiness in my life, why don’t I branch out and create my own?

I could have chosen complacency, chosen convention and chosen the path well-traveled. This life is not our own - it is a gift given and a gift that can be taken away. However, while we all have this life, don’t we owe it to ourselves to give it the very best we’ve got and stretch every second to its maximum capacity?

Maybe I should’ve been a cheerleader.

British Columbians are fortunate to live in a part of the world that is so deeply steeped in natural beauty around every tree, under ever rock and in every ocean current. This could not be more true, however, than for the residents of Vancouver Island. The abundance of wildlife that call the Island [...]

The City of Vancouver has a long-standing reputation of being a “no-fun” city. I politely beg to differ.
The truth is that Vancouver’s humble beginnings are steeped in a dark underworld filled with drugs, gambling, prostitution, drunkenness, stripping and searing hot racial tension.

Join me, if you will, on the Vancouver Police Museum’s infamous Sins of [...]

Consider me a delinquent. I’ve been feeling rather ill lately and therefore less inclined to write, but I think I’m back up to 90% or so. Maybe even 95%. Last night I checked out the Sins Of The City tour with a few friends courtesy of the Vancouver Police Museum, so look [...]

It recently struck me how The Big Time Out couldn’t be a more perfect name for exactly what it is - a day-long break from the ordinary all in the sake of fun and community. Did I mention there will be music and dancing?

Photo: Zoe52 on Flickr
Though The Big Time Out is only [...]

As a teenager growing up in the Comox Valley, Comox Lake was synonymous with lake parties and Lucky beer. However, it was also the setting for handfuls of childhood memories - everything from swimming to boating to picnics and “family fun time.” It is, in fact, an essential part of summertime for anyone [...]

Auntie Andrea bought her nephew a “chicken-chicken” and judging by this video, I think it’s rather obvious he likes it. It’s not unusual for him to get so excited about it that the toy will go flying four feet in the air.

Here’s Jenny Lewis’s newest music video. There are few things I hate in music videos as much as literal imagery, but I hesitate to be in any way critical of Jenny. What I do enjoy is how youthful her face looks. She’s like Jenny, except circa 1986.

When Peter Griffin’s welfare cheque on Family Guy was accidentally written out for $150,000 instead of $150, he built a moat around his home and rented the Statue of David. The kids of The OC spent cash like it was going out of style and were seemingly in constant competition with each other. [...]

Australian writer Germaine Greer once said “The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.” Surely she must have experienced a weekend on Vancouver Island.
Since Andrea was planning meet up with a friend of hers in the Comox Valley and I was headed there to visit family, we grabbed the same ferry together and ended [...]