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Reindeer Games

12/23/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Mark Leiren-Young I was a teenaged reindeer . . . I always wanted to be Santa Claus. When it’s Christmas and you’re in the dressing-up in costumes business, who doesn’t want to be the big guy? But as a gangly teenager — six foot two and maybe 170 pounds, even covered in costume fur […]

Filed Under: Leiren-Young Tagged With: British Columbia, children, Christmas, holidays, showbiz, Vancouver

The Great Pumpkin Toss

10/29/2013 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten I have a Halloween confession: I dislike carving pumpkins. The jack-o’-lantern does not cast its haunting glow at my place of residence, and it’s not because the seedy, sticky innards make a mess or because cutting into the top of a pumpkin is a pain in the ass. I abstain from the […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: family, holidays

Red, warm, and close to the heart

02/14/2011 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Jodi A. Shaw I’ve never been shy about my distaste for Valentine’s Day.   I don’t endorse or encourage celebrating it, I don’t accept Valentine’s Day gifts from anyone other than small children who have an innocent appreciation for the “holiday.” Instead, every year I close my eyes, plug my ears, and wait for it […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: good behaviour, holidays, medicine

Hang the holidays

12/14/2010 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Bev Schellenberg What has happened to our celebratory schedule? It seems it was only a few weeks ago that I bought a witch hat and cape for my daughter, a baron costume for my son, and carved a pumpkin. In fact, it was only a few weeks ago. Now here I am surrounded by […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Christmas, family, holidays

Alone on Valentine’s day? Boo-frigging-hoo.

02/14/2010 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Jodi A. Shaw Most romantic holiday of the year, hey? Valentine’s Day is more like the Paris Hilton of holidays: It’s there, we all observe it, and aside from the potential for an anti-climactic sex tape, it’s pretty much useless. I’m not anti-love, romance or grand gesture. I’m a sucker for all the unrealistic […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: holidays, men, relationships, women

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Reality

11/17/2009 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Bev Schellenberg In this pro recycling age, it’s easy to feel guilty if you don’t maintain a high standard of green living. Do you rinse out your soup can, pull off the label, and insert it into your handy recycling box? What about the milk carton? Does it get a thorough clean and then […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: environment, green living, holidays, homemaking

Conflicted about candy

10/26/2009 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Jodi A. Shaw Navigating your way through the grocery store requires slightly more skill than usual this time of year. Maneuvering the cart around the mountains of Hallowe’en candy displayed in the entryway and randomly throughout the store becomes an exercise in both agility and self-restraint. On my routine weekend trip to the Co-Op, […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: children, health, holidays, nutrition

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From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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