Wake up Vancouver Island! There’s some fresh coffee a’brewin and a wickedly good brioche with your name on it. Seriously! No, your mother hasn’t moved back in with you overnight, but perhaps even better, there’s a new place in the neighbourhood where you could both start your day…with some pretty Serious Coffee, and crumbly little […]
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Tour of the Seaons with a Naturalist
The mild climate in Oceanside provides year round access to nature hiking, wildlife viewing and bird watching in much of Vancouver Island’s wilderness. Subtleties mark your passage from the months of the leaping salmon, vibrant moss, herring spawning, singing frogs, brant geese, blazing flowers, alligator lizards, berries and back again. There’s plenty to do and […]
Seniorpreneurs
When You Can’t See the Forest for the Trees We’ve all heard the phrase ‘can’t see the forest for the trees’ and it’s a pretty good way to describe the place in which many people find themselves after a busy working life. Perhaps they are retired, or their jobs have changed beyond all recognition over […]
Cohousing: Returning to a Place of Many
We all have been in situations in which circumstances have pushed aside the personal distance in which people habitually insulate themselves. An accident in which we suddenly find ourselves helping, or the ground swell of grass roots support during a major catastrophic event like the Kelowna forest fires, or even the simple act of helping […]
Dance with Me
Come on, admit it – when Richard Gere started to dance with Jennifer Lopez in their recent movie, "Shall We Dance?”, didn’t you just want to be them? Didn’t the music and the sensuality and the fun and the intensity, call out to you to join them? Didn’t you long to swirl around a room, […]