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Dan St. Yves: A 2021 real estate wish list

Dan St. Yves: A 2021 real estate wish list

Hello there, 2021! A new year, a new set of hopes and dreams. I suppose if I were being honest, I’d like for one dream to be able to stop prefacing all these columns with a passing reference to COVID-19. It’s a bit of a surreal experience to be trying to eke out a few...
Dan St. Yves: The clothespin ornament

Dan St. Yves: The clothespin ornament

It had survived four moves, one of them clear across Canada. It had survived a tumble all the way down the basement stairs one year, somehow safe in its protective packaging of cardboard box and crumpled old newspaper. It had even survived the passage of time, as the...
Dan St. Yves: Making fibre fun!

Dan St. Yves: Making fibre fun!

After numerous months of pandemic dietary “modifications” (dawn to dusk bored eating/creative use of household pantry items ignored for years/Skip, Uber, DoorDash, BringMeGrub), it would appear my digestive system has begun to recoil against a lack of self-control...
After 20 years of columns, the well maintains moisture

After 20 years of columns, the well maintains moisture

Not sure if it’s this hard-to-believe, still ongoing COVID-19 distraction, or just my age-related memory neurons misfiring, but I almost completely missed the 20th anniversary of this column for October as I sat down to write another column for this month. Twenty...
Dream home, then and now

Dream home, then and now

One of the side benefits of this COVID-19 pandemic general isolation (for my wife and I at least) has been an ongoing room-by-room reorganization of our home. My initial suggestion was just to enjoy a four-month review of the WKRP In Cincinnati TV series on my VHS...