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Lapellah has been my go-to restaurant ever since I moved to Vancouver. It has the advantage of being within walking distance of where I liv...

National Do A Grouch A Favor Day I called my dad. (Love you, Dad.)

My favorite place to get greeting cards is Emily McDowell Studio . I dare you to look and not find something you love there. When I visit he...

Boaters know this feeling: it's a slight feeling of disorientation on land after spending a lot of time on a boat. Especially in the sho...

The last hotel I stayed in, I could not see the TV from the bathroom which is a clear violation of hotel layout regulations. A couple of ste...

I was staying in a hotel recently where I went through my usual routine of mapping my route from bed to bath so I could navigate my way in t...

She's still nagging me to write a book. I thought she forgot about it but, nope. She asked me just the other day, How's the book com...

Whenever someone is talking about "The Wall" in the media, it often features someone talking in front of a wall . This got me to t...

CNN: Washington is under a state of emergency as measles cases rise " Last week, a person infected with measles attended a Portland ...

Today is the official start of Tax Season. Woo hoo!

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Vancouver No. 2 ‘coffee city’ in U.S. " In absolute terms, Vancouver’s 78 coffee shops are substantially outnumbered by Portland’s 2...

No matter where you stay, you will find similarities as well as differences. You might say there are variations on themes however there are ...

I can't really work until the new tax software arrives. It's updated every year, at a minimum, to account for inflation adjustments ...

I'm sure I've lamented here before about the upstairs neighbors we used to have. We were temporarily living in a mother-in-law unit ...

This morning, I made the last entry into my 2018 (paper) diary that was sent to us when we subscribed to The Economist . I enjoyed writing ...

As I look back on 2018 and beyond, I think of the major events that happened in years that ended in 8. 1938 - my dad was born 1988 - a bo...

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Yesterday, I read a blog post entitled, Christmas Mirage  from Route 8 . While the post was really about the author getting sick after atten...