Nanaimo – Leaving Ourselves Behind

A Year of Living Precariously

March 17, 2020

While it would be high drama (and wildly misleading) to suggest our last year was “dangerous”, it was marked by constant change, joy, loss, grief, and now, with Coronavirus dominating the news, “precarious” does not feel like an overstatement. The whole world is precarious. What the heck is going on? If our original plan three … More A Year of Living Precariously

Gabriola: So you want to move to a Gulf Island?

October 25, 2017

The first time we drove off the ferry from Nanaimo to Gabriola, we had just driven across the country from Halifax to B.C. It was 2005, and after decades of living in cities, we were ready to try rural life “lite.” We felt like we had landed in paradise – albeit a paradise lodged firmly … More Gabriola: So you want to move to a Gulf Island?