Blood

19 Aug
When smoky skies make you blue

For Okanaganites, who consider this place the California of the North, being banned from our beaches, first by floods, now by smoky air, it's been a bitter pill to swallow with our valley vino....

28 Jul
Sizzling summer leads to hot headed driving

Roaring up alongside, keeping pace with my vehicle, honking to get my attention (in case I hadn't noticed our game of parallel chicken). I looked over and the other driver flipped me the bird...

21 Jul
Surprise! The unexpected is good for us

The year was 1997. Our daughter was less than three weeks old when my husband threw a surprise birthday party for me that was (surprise!) not so happy....

02 Jun
Lab Staff gifted with the Right Stuff to Study DNA

What happens when local philanthropists put their money where the lab is? Cutting edge technology at KGH that will result in better antibiotic use and quicker diagnosis of deadly viruses...

01 Mar
Facts & Truths about Losing the Boozing

In the spirit of those who have gone before me, detoxing their livers by ditching their drinks, I’m going to toast my monumental effort with a nightcap—err, I mean a recap—of what I have learned from a month without alcohol....

18 Feb
Baking and (no) Booze…they go together

I might be the only person who has lost the booze this month but gained weight. A dozen coconut cupcakes have come from my oven and I'm licking icing from my fingers in order to write this....