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Posted on July 23, 2026July 27, 2026

– the art of deflecting attention from what really matters

Twenty years ago we were living on Texada, an island in British Columbia, and oddly enough it is very similar to where we are now, in Shetland. Same climate. More or less an equivalent number of people. An archipelago, and where everything to keep the people alive has to be imported.

Texada, and Shetland, haven’t …

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Posted on January 13, 2026January 14, 2026

– Canada – the missing chapter

When Maureen was writing TREAD SOFTLY BECAUSE YOU TREAD ON MY DREAMS, she intended to do a chapter on our time in British Columbia, because we went hoping to find a way to live there permanently. In the end her editor thought it might distract from the rest of the story. A couple of weeks...

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