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We all have memories of those pets we had growing up that were not just a part of the family.  They were family.  No matter how often your parents told you that they were “just animals”, you knew that they were somehow part of the glue that held your family together.  Even if that was only true in one’s own little pre-teen mind. Our family pets I still distinctly remember two of our dogs we had when I was growing up as a young child on our

There’s something special that can happen when you’re taking a drive out in the expansive Alberta countryside.  If you’re not in a rush to get somewhere, there are any number of neat places to detour to, explore, and see more than you bargained for.  That’s partly why our website - I AM CALGARY - has the tagline “Detour.  Explore.  See more.”  This could not have been better illustrated than when we recently took a trip to the Millarville Christmas Market

At Christmas time, we have two trees in our home: a pre-lit artificial indoor tree that stands 9-foot tall and adorns – or perhaps, more accurately, dominates - our living room for a month; and a cut tree that we collect from the parking lot at IKEA for $20 and which occupies prize position on the deck adjacent to our front door.  Our indoor tree is decorated with blue, silver and glass ornaments and garland.  Our real, outdoor tree from

‘Tis the season for snow, apple cider and neighbourhood Christmas light reconnoitring.  With five weeks to go till Christmas Eve, we’ve noticed the eager beavers in our neighbourhood already installing and powering up their glowing larger-than-life inflatables, glittering garden ornaments and twinkling light strings.  The recent mild temperatures and snow-free conditions have made it enticing to get into the yard, unravel the power leads, string up the hundreds of feet of lights, and decide whether the latest tech gadgets make it worth automating the whole shebang!  We,

Addiction [ uh-dik-shuh n ] noun: a habit of activity; synonym: habit, compulsion, enslavement, fixation, need, obsession, craving Preface I do need to preface this blog with an admission. One of our guilty pleasures is discovering great pottery and then justifying why we need it.  We’ve learnt to restrict ourselves to mugs and smaller items, partly because of cost but mostly because of space.  We think we have an addiction (hence the definition at the start of this article).  But perhaps any of the synonyms that

Calgary’s iconic Central Public Library has just celebrated its first birthday.  What a phenomenal year it’s been, both for the library and for the city’s emergence onto the global architectural stage.  With the location having opened its doors to welcome more than a million visitors since opening on November 1st, 2018, the Central Library has secured its place in the city’s East Village as, not only an invaluable resource and enabler to the community, but also a top Calgary tourist