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THE SCHWARTZ CHRONICLES: Addiction or Obsession?

Posted by Allan Schwartz
|Date: November 27, 2025
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THE SCHWARTZ CHRONICLES: Addiction or Obsession?

I could walk down the street—any street, for that matter—in any village, town, or city, in any country an ...

I could walk down the street—any street, for that matter—in any village, town, or city, in any country and on any continent, and all I would see are people “clutching” their mobile telephones. What is ...

November 27, 2025
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THE SCHWARTZ CHRONICLES: The Golf Tournament

Posted by Allan Schwartz
|Date: November 27, 2025
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THE SCHWARTZ CHRONICLES: The Golf Tournament

And so it was on Canada Day, July 1, about 20 years ago or so, that our country club held a social couple ...

And so it was on Canada Day, July 1, about 20 years ago or so, that our country club held a social couples’ golf tournament—with a bit of a twist. Each grouping consisted of four couples who played a ...

November 27, 2025
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THE SCHWARTZ CHRONICLES – There Was A Time!

Posted by Allan Schwartz
|Date: November 19, 2025
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THE SCHWARTZ CHRONICLES – There Was A Time!

There was a time when milk was delivered to our home by a horse-drawn wagon and while the milkman, in his ...

There was a time when milk was delivered to our home by a horse-drawn wagon and while the milkman, in his uniform and wearing his hat was dropping off milk bottles at our side door and picking up the ...

November 19, 2025
| by Allan Schwartz

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Can You Speak? You Can Sing!

Posted by Joan Boxall
|Date: October 27, 2025
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Can You Speak? You Can Sing!

I am sitting with one thousand singers at a five-day choral music festival called Kathaumixw (pronounced ...

I am sitting with one thousand singers at a five-day choral music festival called Kathaumixw (pronounced ‘kah-tie-miew’ in the Tla’amin First Nation’s language). The Aboriginal people gifted the name ...

October 27, 2025
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Motorcycle Diaries

Posted by Monica Yuzak
|Date: August 31, 2025
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Motorcycle Diaries

It turned out my new boyfriend, Yves, rode a motorcycle. “Nope. No way. I’m nearly forty-five and not up ...

It turned out my new boyfriend, Yves, rode a motorcycle. “Nope. No way. I’m nearly forty-five and not up for the ‘biker-bitch’ role,” I asserted. “Been there, done that, got the T-shirt, and it no lon ...

August 31, 2025
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Grandpaw Chronicles: Things You Used to Do

Posted by Marc S Axelrod
|Date: August 25, 2025
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Grandpaw Chronicles: Things You Used to Do

There are lots of things we all used to do. A whole lifetime of them. No matter your age, you ...

There are lots of things we all used to do. A whole lifetime of them. No matter your age, you are definitely older than you used to be. The consequences are that you may not be able ...

August 25, 2025
| by Marc S Axelrod

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Living On Purpose: Summer Book Reading With A Purpose

Posted by Laurie Mueller
|Date: July 01, 2025
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Living On Purpose: Summer Book Reading With A Purpose

Three books I recommend for your summer reading are “Muddy Water” by Allen Tysick, “A Turn of Attention: ...

Three books I recommend for your summer reading are “Muddy Water” by Allen Tysick, “A Turn of Attention: Journeys into Mediumship” by Debra Doerksen, and “The World So Wide” by Zilla Jones. All three ...

July 01, 2025
| by Laurie Mueller

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Refresh: For The Love of Music & Dance

Posted by Verena Foxx
|Date: February 28, 2025
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Refresh: For The Love of Music & Dance

If ageing is seen as a gift of time to explore new experiences, the freedom to pursue dreams is blown wid ...

If ageing is seen as a gift of time to explore new experiences, the freedom to pursue dreams is blown wide open. It is often when people take the time to engage in creativity and connection through mu ...

February 28, 2025
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Gone With the Birds

Posted by Mike Yip
|Date: February 28, 2025
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Gone With the Birds

In 2004 I was comfortably entrenched in my retirement life of golf, gardening, and relaxation when a seri ...

In 2004 I was comfortably entrenched in my retirement life of golf, gardening, and relaxation when a series of events conspired to change my life forever. It was a cold, crisp, and sunny February morn ...

February 28, 2025
| by Mike Yip

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Grandpaw Chronicles: Boy, When Things Go Wrong…!

Posted by Marc S Axelrod
|Date: February 11, 2025
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Grandpaw Chronicles: Boy, When Things Go Wrong…!

We’ve all had that day. You know, the day when even the simplest things go wrong. It makes yo ...

We’ve all had that day. You know, the day when even the simplest things go wrong. It makes you wonder how anything ever goes right. The cheerful helpful store employee tells you wher ...

February 11, 2025
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Women Who Sail

Posted by Marion Lougheed
|Date: January 01, 2025
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Women Who Sail

Only a small percentage of people working in the marine industry in BC are women. The same is true for pl ...

Only a small percentage of people working in the marine industry in BC are women. The same is true for pleasure boaters. A quick perusal of Facebook sailing groups confirms the vast majority of pleasu ...

January 01, 2025
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Cordova Bay Hikers

Posted by Rosalie Knogler
|Date: November 01, 2024
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Cordova Bay Hikers

In 1982, three women, Sheila Ogilvie, Audrey Mills and Shirley Mills, began hiking together on Wednesdays ...

In 1982, three women, Sheila Ogilvie, Audrey Mills and Shirley Mills, began hiking together on Wednesdays. Soon, others joined them. In 1986, they placed an ad in the local Cordovan newsletter that br ...

November 01, 2024
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Living On Purpose – Inspiring Summer Reads, And a Touch of Laughter

Posted by Laurie Mueller
|Date: July 03, 2024
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Living On Purpose – Inspiring Summer Reads, And a Touch of Laughter

Retired or not, summer seems to bring out the desire to spend more time reading. As part of several write ...

Retired or not, summer seems to bring out the desire to spend more time reading. As part of several writers’ groups, I have discovered a whole new library of authors, expanding my reading choices from ...

July 03, 2024
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Living On Purpose-Downsizing or Bust

Posted by Laurie Mueller
|Date: April 30, 2024
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Living On Purpose-Downsizing or Bust

Our grand plan of wintering in Mexico and the rest of the year living in a condo in our hometown of Victo ...

Our grand plan of wintering in Mexico and the rest of the year living in a condo in our hometown of Victoria, BC was put on hold when the pandemic hit. But by the summer of 2022, we were s ...

April 30, 2024
| by Laurie Mueller

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Chasing Air and Water

Posted by Michael Poser
|Date: February 29, 2024
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Chasing Air and Water

We call ourselves the Geezer Kayak Club. We are actually a small group of “sixty-something” river kayaker ...

We call ourselves the Geezer Kayak Club. We are actually a small group of “sixty-something” river kayakers who have been paddling together for over thirty years - a minor miracle in a high attrition s ...

February 29, 2024
| by Michael Poser

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