Kitty konfession korner

Kitty konfession korner

I was a cat in a past life. All the signs are there: I nap on my back with my wrists limp as I dream of chasing birds. I like to sit at my living room window and swat the Venetian blind cords. I’m picky as hell with food (except for fish), friends, friends of friends,...

APRIL FOOLS: On the mammoth in the Royal B.C. Museum

I experience no greater moment of awe than I do at the feet of the woolly mammoth. This elephantine creature inspires a prehistoric admiration deep within my simian being. The arctic winds he weathered. The tundra he survived. The insurmountable obstacles this great...

Sea lions speak up

HUMOUR — The sea lions of Race Rocks Ecological Reserve are not happy. In a letter to Victoria’s Mayor Dean Fortin — legible only to UVic’s Earth and Ocean Sciences department — Wolfie the 800-pound bull claimed that tour companies such as Prince of Whales Whale...

Houston, we want to get married

“I love you to the moon and back” is a popular phrase, but would you be able to prove it? This Valentine’s Day, a man from Paris named Sebastian will possibly come closer than any person ever has to doing so. With the help of Parisian company ApoteoSurprise, which...
Museums can take us back to a personal past

Museums can take us back to a personal past

I’m not a lifetime resident of Victoria, but I’m close to it. I’m more like a lifetime tourist. Although I didn’t start living in this city until I attended UVic, I have known Victoria since I was four. I still have vivid memories of my first visit to this...