Opinion

I am a teacher in Prince George. As an educator I make certain that my personal opinions are not impressed onto children. I make certain that my personal life does not affect my job. I make certain that when I make a mistake I do not make it again.

My fellow columnist, Nathan Giede, has written about what it is to be a conservative - or maybe I should say Conservative - in recent weeks. I find his discussion interesting.

The good folks at CBC Radio's Daybreak North have been asking their listeners for submissions for great summer songs this past week, in an effort to hang on to the last threads of the endless sunshine and warm weather.

Brr -- as sad as it is, summer seems to be officially over here in Prince George. The beautiful fall colours are out in full force, all the trees on the hill behind my house have turned quickly.

Many gardeners are harvesting vegetables from the vegetable garden and are not thinking about planting in the vegetable garden, but this is the best time of year to be planting garlic.

Most everyone knows the old show business adage "the show must go on!" I would argue, however, that only those people who work as live entertainers truly understand what the phrase means, because we've all been there.

This afternoon I was out in the woods with my dog. I was noticing that the mud is starting to freeze up, and that my footprints were neither so deep nor so clear as they were a couple of days ago. I think about footprints a great deal.

This March we lost our beautiful daughter in-law to cancer. You don't think it will hit your family but it hit ours and the loss is devastating.

Recently I was thinking how Christy Clark appeared to be doing a pretty good job as premier of our province. Then I was floored when she was doing a sound bite on the news blaming the teachers' union and our teachers for the current strike situation.

It's déjà vu all over again. When I was a graduate student living in Ontario and contemplating my future I thought that I might like to write a dissertation that looked at the "Quebec question.