For many people, sending postcards to the folks back home is part of the fun of travel. For a rapidly-growing number of travellers, creating scrapbooks when they get back home helps cement and even enhance the memories. Wouldn’t it be great to have postage stamps showing where you are...

With the temperature forecast to dive to far-below-normal in the next few days, much of yesterday was spent doing some pre-winter maintenance around the house. The “must-do” job was the semi-annual water change and cleaning of the hot tub. It’s a pretty simple process – drain, scrub it down...

That’s a pretty offensive title, isn’t it? Well, the manager of the Alaska Shirt Company store in Skagway stole $78,000 from the company back in June and disappeared, then came back to Skagway 2 months later on the Norwegian Star! When even that didn’t get him arrested, he left...

Winter can come now – I have 2 years’ worth of firewood in the yard, one year stacked and dry, and both cars are in the slightly-heated garage. The power outages that are becoming a regular occurrence are a minor nuisance, but the house will stay warm and we...

During a Yukon summer it’s easy to just sit back and enjoy the benign Nature that surrounds us, and even that is easily overshadowed by the rush of “things to do” that most of us have. This time of year, though, Nature is tough to ignore – she bites,...

Being a railfan, I love this analogy… Speaking of train wrecks, at BustedTees.com I found a t-shirt for the poor kid who Sarah is claiming as her future son-in-law:...

After staying fairly stable for much of the Wall Street crisis, my RSP funds have suffered staggering losses this week as people panic and bail out of the markets. Depending on what you’ve invested in, that may be a good idea, but probably not. My former financial advisor gave...

I got an email this morning that told the amazing story of Brutus: The K9 above is Brutus, a military K9 at McChord. He’s huge – part Boxer and part British Bull Mastiff and tops the scales at 200 lbs. His handler took the picture. Brutus is running toward...

Stated more accurately, I don’t read properly anymore. Like many people with busy lives, I read snippets of information rather than complete articles – on the Web mostly. I seldom buy newspapers anymore, and often they sit on the table for days or even weeks before I do more...