
What a great day at the lake. Taking a break from preparing my next history of the Pacific Northwest for you, I went to Okanagan Lake just as the sun was dipping […]
What a great day at the lake. Taking a break from preparing my next history of the Pacific Northwest for you, I went to Okanagan Lake just as the sun was dipping […]
Well, my companions took the cold rather hard. And we’re talking cold. Here is what our December looked like. That’s the date on the left, then the high, then the low (circled), […]
Bella Vista, Above Canim Bay
When you are born to a world, in which the old growth forests are bunchgrasses less than a metre high… … and live in these forests for close to half the time […]
A vital part of the history of the Pacific Northwest is the concept of how your body relates to it culturally as a body among other bodies. This is not the same […]
The Okanagan Valley, a European space since 1859, hasn’t shed its colonial roots. Becoming a part of Canada in 1871 didn’t do a whole lot about that, partly because when you colonize […]
This is the fourth in a series of notes on the practice of transferring human slavery to land slavery. This one is a compound method that includes a fair bit of human […]
Dancing in the sun. Among the lettuce seeds caught on their way to the stars. A slow dance. Tra-la-la. In three dimensions, yet. That all took an hour. When the sun went […]
You have probably noticed that I live in what is usually called “Canada”, a country claiming the northern half of North America. You’ve probably guessed that I travel on a Canadian passport. […]
After watching the dowries of two women, Lucy Simla and Florence Louden, become transformed into ownership over the last 2 posts, today we’ll take a bit of time to track the continued […]