by Dan St. Yves | May 24, 2019 | News
As I watched out my living room window a few weeks ago, I noticed a couple of hares in my yard. For the record, being in Alberta they are indeed hares, not rabbits. Whatever they were considered was immaterial, as the more pressing matter suddenly became an unexpected...
by Dan St. Yves | Apr 26, 2019 | News
I’m probably opening a can of worms with this column, but there are many birds that would find that quite an ideal scenario – so let’s just say this one is for the birds! Over the 11 years I spent as a Realtor, so many of them were smooth and unremarkable. Months,...
by Dan St. Yves | Mar 18, 2019 | Featured
In a perfect world we live, we thrive and we grow old in our dream homes. In the real world though, sometimes life happens and suddenly you find yourself behind the eight ball, trying to fend off an unfortunate foreclosure sale of that dream home. Back when I was...
by Dan St. Yves | Feb 19, 2019 | News
As I often tend to do right before a column deadline approaches, I wander about my home office for an hour or six, glance occasionally at the blank page on my computer screen, then Google search random ideas. This month, I had an “Aha” moment as I typed in “poems...
by Dan St. Yves | Jan 25, 2019 | Featured
With appointments booked and a full day of work to be conducted well into the evening, I am instead seated on a wooden barstool at my kitchen breakfast nook. My head is covered in a big fluffy blanket, and my face is as close to a boiling kettle as I can safely...