People

This is an archive of entries in the category People: Are you a people person? I'm not. Yet each day, I put on a smile and go out and deal with them. These are stories about them.

There’s No Place Like It

Almost two years on, Alberta still feels like a foreign country to me. Wherever I go in my somewhat small current daily life, I get a feeling from both people and place that I’m in some kind of weird extension…

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A Mystery Of Life

Ray and I have been hooked on the Discovery Channel series “The Deadliest Catch”. It’s a terrific series that documents the lives of those who risk life and limb to fish for crab in the Bering Sea on the high…

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Thanks!

I just wanted to take a minute to say thanks. Thanks to whoever it was that was nice enough to wollop the driver’s side door on my car with their passenger side door. You were in the Sears parking lot…

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Slightly Scary Moment

I came close to getting punched out at the grocery store yesterday. My crime? Looking at an unusually-turned-out, yet very cute little boy a second or two too long. It was a lovely Sunday morning, and my mind was in…

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Must. Get. Out.

Another small chapter from the Rude Albertans storybook: Dishing up a rotisserie chicken for a customer and having a chat while I do so, I hear a bellowing voice from the produce department, about ten steps away. “I’LL NEED ONE…

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