Tag: Cool

I don’t know how many of you were the popular kids in high school, but I know for a fact I wasn’t one of them. To tell you the truth, I wasn’t even considering it as a possibility. I knew it was a thing, but not a thing that I would ever have access to, just like being the ...

Some may call it graffiti just because it is on the walls but look much deeper the next time you see street art. You don’t have to look far when you are in a city to find art all around you. Street artists serve a purpose in displaying their talents, one being that they can bring the commun...

Ten years ago, I felt I needed a trip to make a milestone, my 40th birthday. I was raised in a family where travel was just not done. It was something reserved for the wealthy. We weren’t wealthy. The furthest I ever went from home as a kid was an hour away to see my maternal grandmother at th...

It’s that time of year when the leaves start turning to warm hues of orange and scarlet, the mornings become cool enough to wear warm layers (only to shed them around noon), and the urge to rewatch 2000s comfort series like Gilmore Girls compels you to start a binge-watching journey....

At some point you have to close the books, get on the bike and work off the study pudge. You can create your own variation based on where you live by comparing the route to the official Translink bike route maps for Metro Vancouver. This route links the two major research universities i...

The bay cat (Catopuma badia), of Borneo, is one of the rarest and most elusive cats in the world, and so very little is known about it.. Although it has been known to exist since the 1800s, it was not until 1992 that a live bay cat could be observed for the first time. So researchers were able to st...

Last Monday, I got the sad news that my Aunt Betty had passed away. She’d had some health issues in the last few years, including several strokes that rendered her wheelchair-bound. She communicated mostly through hand movements and nods. Despite her disabilities, she always had a smile on her...