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Friday, April 4, 2025

Janet Rigg

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I am increasingly humbled by the people whom I run into who mention they read my column regularly. My biweekly musings sometimes seem of...

Costa Rica, loving challengers retreat

Do you listen to your own inner voice? Not the voice that tells you did it wrong, not the one that wonders why you...

Whimsy

Here we are, half way through the longest shortest month of the year. How do we keep going? With whimsy. The world is particularly bleak at...

A viral post of an unwanted nature

As a columnist, I spend time considering what I’m going to write and the audience that is likely to enjoy it. I try to...

Have a heart

In the summer of 2022, blue spray-painted hearts began to appear at the end of Wiggins Road in Tlell. I had to look up...

The Best Laid Plans

Funny thing about “best-laid plans” — the only time we ever hear that phrase is precisely when plans have gone distinctly wrong. If you...

We’re nearly there… soon the Solstice will be upon us.

Winter is a time of contrasts, even when there is no white snow on the ground. It’s a time of quiet moments alone and...

Hippos for Hope

Last spring, a curious thing began to happen around Tlell. Small hippos were showing up in people’s yards, a new previously unknown species of...

Rumours and ravens

No, I’m not Annie. I don’t even know who Annie is. She’s a mystery advice columnist to me, too. I like her advice; I’d say it’s...

Energetic cycles

Tlell, like all the communities on Haida Gwaii, is hunkering down for winter. Harvest feasts were enjoyed, some still calling it “Thanksgiving” — more in...

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