1st World Problems

My daughter went back to school today.  She hasn't been out long, two weeks for Christmas break, and then one more tacked on while the government said that they were going to give the schools a chance to make the schools a little safer. This was supposed to include upgraded air filters, N95 masks for all, and the ever-elusive at-home rapid tests were even going to be handed out twice a week.  You would think at this point I would have stopped taking our current provincial government at their word. You would think I would know to take everything they say with a grain of salt. But I don't. I still think that they are not only going to do what they say they are going to. I still think that they care about us, the public. And because of all of this, I am stuck. I know that my daughter needs to be in school to learn. She is a kid who needs to be amongst her peers and within their safe social structure to learn at the best of her ability. But, when she was born she was in the NICU f...

 If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you be? When I was a kid we moved around a lot. I don't love moving but I love the adventure of being somewhere new. Even if it's in the same city just a new neighbourhood. I have lots of places left on my list of places I want to see and experience. And some I need to return to.  My favourite place to travel to (so far) is the province where I was born. There is nowhere else like it. It sits off to the east coast kind of like an afterthought. The land is buffeted pretty much constantly by wind and by the waves. While a part of this country it definitely doesn't feel like it. The air is clean, the people are kind, and the houses colourful. I went back earlier in the summer to bury my grandfather. So while not a vacation I was very glad I was there to say goodbye. It was very hard to leave when it was time to come back. All I want to do is pack up my family and go back.  I think when on vacation we all imagine w...

  Friendos,  This might not be the most fun post. I have an idea of where it's going but let us buckle in and tackle this together.  I am not going to open a debate here about vaccination. Nor am I going to open one about restrictions. If you came here to fight, I am not the one today.  As adults we are allowed to have differing opinions. It's your body, you do you boo.  This is where I draw the line though. A week ago in Salmon Arm BC,  anti-mask/vaxxers entered a school while children were attending classes. This prompted the school to go into lockdown. What kind of backwards pageantry would ever enter the mind of a sane person to think that the right place to put on this kind of show would need to take it to the children? The organizers of these sorts of events need to give their heads a collective shake. Schools should be a safe place. These protestors brought terror and confusion into those hallways. The worst part of it may be that they felt rig...