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Quiet times at the rez

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Creative cleaning solutions

Cleaning your bathroom is boring, but experiments aren’t. Sometimes just trying something new and creative can make cleaning interesting. I’m not saying cleaning is going…


Peace – the vision of Islam

Many people have heard that Islam, as a religion, means peace, but very few people have seen a parallel depiction in mainstream media — from…


When and wear

Every year I wait with bated breath, well more like chapped lips and half-bitten fingernails, to be proven wrong. “This will be the year!” I…


In a land far, far away

Since my last article, the heat now works, a cup is catching the hot water heater drippings, and I purchased some bedsheets. Things are looking…





So you want to climb?

I can honestly admit that some of the coolest people I know are climbers. Maybe they’re cool because they climb. Or maybe climbing makes them…


The age of things

Two hundred kilometers north of Winnipeg is Nopiming Provincial Park, a place full of backwater camping and hiking trails, and, as it happens, precambrian rocks…