by Dan St. Yves | Jan 21, 2020 | Columnists
The old saying “if these walls could talk” typically refers to historic buildings that have long outlived the original occupants and now would be able to share amazing stories of what had happened in that space over those years, were the walls able to converse with...
by Dan St. Yves | Dec 17, 2019 | News
It was the turn of the century, and this century was turning even grumpier for Ebenezer “Scrooge” McLister. Wearing a decidedly dark and skeptical demeanour most times, Ebenezer had picked up the nickname after a famous cartoon duck, as he also was known for decidedly...
by Dan St. Yves | Oct 15, 2019 | News
You would think there are some common-sense considerations that just don’t need to be pointed out, or stressed implicitly in print form when you have a home listed for sale – but given the human capacity for surprise and/or self-entitlement, I do have to wonder… To be...
by Dan St. Yves | Sep 17, 2019 | News
According to my records, which admittedly are about as reliable as betting on a scratched long shot at the racetrack, my first column for REM appeared in October 2000. Not much on word count back then, I was somehow able to convince the esteemed editor to take a flyer...
by Dan St. Yves | Aug 13, 2019 | News
Back in 2006, I had a column appear here entitled The Zen of moving, wherein I suggested that to casual onlookers, our moving caravan may have resembled the semi trailer trucks required to keep Fleetwood Mac out on the road. My wife and I recently moved again, and at...
