How you do write the story of Whistler, in 1500 words of less? Given the chance to write the Whistler feature for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Souvenir Program, the only option was to offer readers a bullet-train journey across well-travelled ground, slowing occasionally to wave at contemporary Whistlerites, which gave rockstar-photojournalist Bonny Makarewicz a platform…
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Road time and river time explains sense of duelling personalities
Pemberton’s Multifaith Messiah, scribe and The Pembertonian columnist Babar Javed quotes Margaret Vasser in one of his recent baubles of wisdom. “There are two kinds of time. Road time is when we are standing at the roadside, with events approaching and then passing us by; river time is when we are in the flow of…
Not a bedroom community, not a potato farm
My husband is barely out the door five minutes when the phone rings. “Are you calling to make sure I didn’t just go back to bed?” I ask. I am a writer. Such things do happen. It’s not as if I need to punch the clock at 8am to get my work done. “No. I…
