While travelling with Mom on Monday morning, she commented on the near-pristine shape of our car, a 2012 Kia Sportage with standard transmi...

Photograph, 2011. 

Photograph, 2011. 

Someone special is celebrating a big birthday today...but I don't think I'm allowed to say how many years have passed since she c...

One of my favourite songs from one of my favourite artists. 

Mike Parlow (bearded, centre) was in town for a conference, so Steve hosted an impromptu gathering to celebrate. We played Formula De, a...

Yesterday I received my flu vaccine shot at the University of Alberta hospital. "There, you're good to go," the nurse said ...

In "The Paradise Syndrome," one of the better-regarded episodes of the third season of Star Trek, the plot hinges upon what at th...

Today, while watching Sangaree (the first 3D Technicolor film), I suddenly realized, upon seeing a delivery to a warehouse in the film...t...

Millennium Falcon Gliding through the great black emptiness of space proved as simple as gliding through the arid skies of Tatooine. With ...

Here's how my home office in our first condo looked after we moved out and cleaned everything back in August 2010. I think we lef...

Check out that lens flare!

I must say, season seven (seven already?) of Arrow opened with promise: the characters act in reasonable ways with believable motivations, ...

Star Destroyer Validator Captain Piett, arms crossed stiffly behind his back, paced along the Validator bridge's main walkway, his ja...

HYPERSPACE, en route to Yavin IV "Chewie, I don't want you horsing around with that kid on the ship. I'm not worried about y...

TATOOINE Under the twin suns of Tatooine, the boy flourished. By the time he turned 12, he was easily defeating the Wookie who often visit...

The world ended for Ensign Chadwick when he failed to establish a tracking lock on the Corellian frigate that had just jumped into hyperspa...

From our trip to visit Jeff, Susan and Steven in 2010. 

Or maybe I'm asking for clarification. Alberta Liberal Caucus, 2010.