While their homes and farm fields remain inundated by water, Curtis Sandhu says his family is looking towards rebuilding after a dike failed and devastating flooding hit the prime agricultural area east of Vancouver nearly two weeks ago. The flooding in the Sumas Prairie came little more than four months after a heat wave in…
‘It’s My Life’s Work’: BC Fruit and Vegetable Growers Face Uncertainty After Floods
The Greatest of Our Treasures
Tough times demand tough people. This winter promises to bring some hard times to most Americans, and we need to set our hearts and souls like flint against what’s coming down the pike. An inflationary spike in fuel and food costs, the slowdown in our nationwide supply chain, the ongoing fights over Wuhan flu mandates,…
Baby Girl Welcomes Daddy Home After Deployment
The way she’s making tiny steps toward her father will melt even the coldest heart.
VIDEO: Woman Saved a Baby Java Sparrow Found On The Ground; Now He Visits To Sing To Her
A fellow named Dave on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, stumbled across a tiny creature crawling in the wet grass in 2019—it was a delicate, helpless baby bird. Dave looked for a nest or mother bird but could find neither. Not knowing what to do, he put the creature in his pocket to keep it…
Adopted Girl and Her Mother Discuss When They First Met
“My heart fell in love with you.”
The Ultimate Guide to Flawless Regifting
The act of regifting—passing on as new a gift someone else gave you—is controversial but only because of those who do a noticeably bad job of it. If every act of regifting were carried out flawlessly, no one would have the occasion to find it distasteful. The secret to flawless regifting is to know and…
Thanksgiving With the Isacs: Turning Grief Into a Celebration of Gratitude
For the past 19 years, the Isacs family has hosted Thanksgiving dinner at their home in the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut. Each year, anywhere from 8 to 20 extended family and friends swelled the ranks of the family of four: Peter and Nadine, the consummate host and hostess, and their sons PK, 27, and Christopher,…
4 Things We Really Want for Christmas
Do you remember the TV show “Supermarket Sweep”? Contestants had several minutes to fill grocery carts with as much stuff as possible. But the winner wasn’t determined by the quantity of stuff jammed into the cart but by the total monetary value at checkout. The contestant with the biggest tab won the game. The strategy…
Parental Time Management Hacks That Work
Parents who work full-time provide a little magic and grace throughout the day. The COVID-19 pandemic punishes working parents. Parents who work full-time are the best people to provide a little magic and grace throughout the day to their own children—But don’t underestimate the care they take with your team, either. Parental Time Management Hacks that…
Purposeful Parenting: It Starts With a Plan
Strategic planning sessions. Company retreats. Visions and goal setting. Most of us who have worked in any kind of administrative environment have sat in brainstorming meetings with someone facilitating the event probably with a flip chart or computer screen. We know the drill. You have a vision, a mission statement, you arrive at “the why”…
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