I have been reading a lot lately about the rising costs of insurance and my wife and I have been battling with the never-ending increases over the last few years. A number of years ago I started realizing that once you insure your principal home or your rentals and even your vehicles, if you don’t […]
Cabin Fever & Dreams Sometimes I don’t dream at all and then other times I just have the craziest dreams. You know the ones where you need to get away, but you can’t hardly move or run, and you have the feeling that something really bad is going to happen if you can’t get those […]
I hear so many people talking about low cost housing and that developers should be forced to build (and pay for) low cost housing for the lower income people and families. Well, you may not like or want to hear this but there is no such thing as “low cost housing”. I also hear people […]
The real problem is not population explosion, but what the population is doing. – Radhanath Swami With more than 7.8 billion people on the planet today, the world may have more than 10 billion people in the next 25 years. Even more amazing? The world could have way more by the end of the century — or it […]
Something just doesn’t seem right with what’s been going on lately and in particular how seniors are not being as respected as they once were . I watched the news hour the other day while they interviewed some seniors who were talking about how difficult it’s been for them lately with the escalation in prices […]
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve” ― W. Clement Stone Sometimes you watch things that really impress you and make you wonder how did they do that? Well, 𝐀𝐦𝐢𝐱 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 recently relocated 2 MGM container cranes from DP World Centerm to DP World Duke Point. DP World Centerm […]
“If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy I’m reasonably sure that I’m going to get some flak over this but, my opinion is that today there are just no consequences for bad behaviour, doing things to other people or property, and […]
The times they are a changing: Bob Dylan The fabric of the world has changed, and it may be what is about to happen with Woodgrove Mall in Nanaimo. The older I get the quicker things seem to change. It sometimes seems like one of those movies where Artificial Intelligence starts to take over and […]
“The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.” — John Howard, US cyclist I have a wonderful friend by the name of Pamela Walker who lives a few doors down from us and is not only a part time actress, was until recently, a Blue Berry farmer with her wonderful husband, and […]
THERE IS REASON TO BELIEVE MOST OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING WILL BECOME REALITY IN THE NEXT 10-20 YEARS . . . . MOST OF US WON’T SEE THE CHANGES, BUT OUR KIDS AND GRAND-KIDS WILL !! 1 – Auto repair shops will disappear . . . . 2 – A petrol/diesel engine has 20,000 […]