My timeshare is probably one of the best investments I have ever made. I did not always think so. I ranted about fees, used it sparingly, suffered poor customer service, thought about selling it. But very recently, RCI redeemed itself through one beautiful resort in Vancouver Island. Enter Pacific Shores Resort and Spa. Let’s start [...]

She was in coveralls, smudged by soot from head to toe. She had been cleaning the fireplace of one of the apartment she owns.  She did not look the part at that time – but I was looking at one of the more financially savvy immigrant septuagenarian of Vancouver.  Her eyes had confidence as it [...]

We were late. We were going to beautiful Victoria in Vancouver Island and we overslept.  There was a forecast of sun and I peeked to the window, apprehensive, because we have not seen the sun in days.  It was out!  And the world was beautiful! At once, I was filled with panic.  It might disappear [...]

How could we accumulate so much in just a few years? I asked myself this as I was surrounded by boxes, and choices. What should I give up?  I wore this during our anniversary, and this during that party, and this was given to me by a favorite friend, and that by a favorite boss.  [...]

You love them. You love the history of the thing, or the imagined history.  Which could be what you make of it, since history is written by the victorious anyway (those who lived to tell the tale), and it might be that the actual truth could be less rosy, or rosier, or be in the [...]

  Literally.  Because we took it a notch.  Er, notches. Family and I – we just moved to Canada.  A country an ocean away, separated from us by 13 hours of flight time. A country of rugged beauty, incessant rains, warm winters (8 degrees is warm for them), trees with breadth longer than an arm [...]