Paying attention

From the cutting edge of home decor.... We're settling in, happily, to the new digs in Copan Ruinas. On Tuesday, two guys with a truck ...

I can't resist a few comments on the B.C. budget from some 4,700 kms away First, I wonder if the budget is the last for Premier Christy ...

I’ve been parsing my way through the papers, diccionario in hand, reading about the Honduran prison fire that killed 359 people on Valentine...

Sitting in our new place in Copan Ruinas, I’m struck by how far I’ve travelled to get back to where I started. Our apartment has a table, tw...

I have come to Honduras and seen the future of hockey - or street hockey, at least. An innovation borrowed from the Maya could add life to t...

There’s a certain amount of self-discovery tied into my current effort to learn Spanish, and reminders of past failings. I’ve hurled myself ...

There’s a lot that can be said about the downside of the home-stay experience. But I won’t say it; after all, nine-year-old Carlos is learni...

We’ve been house-hunting, an experience I never liked in Canada. In Copan Ruinas, it’s so baffling it transcends unpleasantness. For starter...

I’ve been trying to resist the urge to comment on B.C. politics and policy from Honduras, but habits die hard. I’m still checking the B.C. p...

It was a good weekend for walking in Copan, hot but not roasting, and we did. On Saturday morning, we hooked up with three people from the S...

I had an email from my father today expressing alarm about the risks in Honduras and urging caution, noting my mother’s concerns for our saf...

So far, one of the most striking things about our home stay in Copan Ruinas is the soundtrack accompanying life in our little family compoun...

We’ve been here less than 48 hours, and attended our first fiesta. Esmeralda, our home stay host, told us there was a party tonight. I think...

So I started to write about how strange this all is, and a tiny moth, brown and with perfect spread wings, landed on my computer screen, att...

Day two of Cuso in-country training, and I recognized part of what I'm liking about the moving to Honduras experience. I'm way out o...

Well, you'd probably recognize me, but the new life part certainly applies. (And while the headline is from The Sign, I am referencing t...

I’ve been urging the same New Year’s resolution in columns for 10 years now. Which means it’s great, or I’m unimaginative. I’m living the re...

The Progress Board, set up by Gordon Campbell in 2002 to report on how the government is doing and killed by Christy Clark last year, went o...

The fracking debate — or more accurately the absence of one — is another example of B.C.’s great divide. If fracking was going on in the Low...

Those paying close attention might have noticed a new link in the upper right here, called Heading to Honduras . That’s where I’m going in m...