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The Bookless Club: What are your run-ins with unmitigated gall?

22.12.2024 10

Vancouver Sun

Jane Macdougall

The Bookless Club: Are you a stockpile of trivia? Mayday means Help. It’s the initial declaration of an emergency: I need help and I need it right now! As alarm calls go, this one couldn’t be any weirder.

16.12.2024 8

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The Bookless Club: Are you a stockpile of trivia?

15.12.2024 9

Vancouver Sun

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The Bookless Club: How do you hit the reset button? The weeks that lie ahead are infamous for being freighted with social challenges. With the tinsel and toddies comes trouble.

02.12.2024 10

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The Bookless Club: How do you hit the reset button?

The weeks that lie ahead are infamous for being freighted with social challenges. With the tinsel and toddies comes trouble. You can save this article...

01.12.2024 10

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The Bookless Club: What are your stuffing secrets and traditions?

The trouble with stuffing is that, as much as you may love it, bacteria loves stuffing more. Specifically, the salmonella and e.Coli bacteria. You can...

22.11.2024 10

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The Bookless Club: Setting the table We are a less formal world today. Hardly anyone uses "the good china" anymore. Fabric napkins have given way to paper.

25.10.2024 10

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The Bookless Club: Setting the table

We are a less formal world today. Hardly anyone uses "the good china" anymore. Fabric napkins have given way to paper. You can save this article by...

25.10.2024 8

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The Bookless Club: Is it really harder to be a parent today?

Opinion: We now have a generation of parents who believe that, never in the history of the world has so much been asked of parents. You can save this...

18.10.2024 10

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The Bookless Club: Is it really harder to be a parent today? Opinion: We now have a generation of parents who believe that, never in the history of the world has so much been asked of parents.

18.10.2024 10

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The Bookless Club: Orchids make the bloom brighter Orchids entered the realm of fast fashion — quickly produced and quickly discarded.

04.10.2024 10

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The Bookless Club: Orchids make the bloom brighter

Orchids entered the realm of fast fashion — quickly produced and quickly discarded. You can save this article by registering for free here. Or...

04.10.2024 10

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The Bookless Club: Um ... brellas? Vancouver is a rainy city. Vancouverites covet umbrellas. When it rains, umbrellas soar in value.

27.09.2024 10

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Jane Macdougall

The Bookless Club: Um ... brellas?

Vancouver is a rainy city. Vancouverites covet umbrellas. When it rains, umbrellas soar in value. You can save this article by registering for free...

27.09.2024 10

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The Bookless Club: False eyelashes and duck lips Opinion: Anna Taylor’s claim to fame is that, in 1911, this Canadian woman patented the very first glue-on false eyelashes.

13.09.2024 10

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The Bookless Club: False eyelashes and duck lips

Opinion: Anna Taylor’s claim to fame is that, in 1911, this Canadian woman patented the very first glue-on false eyelashes. You can save this...

13.09.2024 20

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The Bookless Club: Birthday cake coins It seems the tradition of coin-laden cakes has fallen off in recent years, but the history of hiding things in cakes is a long one.

06.09.2024 10

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The Bookless Club: Birthday cake coins

It seems the tradition of coin-laden cakes has fallen off in recent years, but the history of hiding things in cakes is a long one. You can save this...

06.09.2024 10

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Jane Macdougall: Edith, Eydie and ectoplasm

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. I’m going to take a month off from the weekly question...

09.08.2024 10

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The Bookless Club: There’s a lot to be said for cruises Jane Macdougall: One thing that’s unrivalled is the service. Where else today can you find white linen table cloths, round tables that seat 10, or old-world service where everyone remembers your name?

27.07.2024 10

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The Bookless Club: There’s a lot to be said for cruises

Jane Macdougall: One thing that’s unrivalled is the service. Where else today can you find white linen table cloths, round tables that seat 10, or...

27.07.2024 10

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The Bookless Club: Unpacking packing There are a variety of approaches to packing. Personally, I take the highly academic approach. Well, in theory, I take the highly academic approach.

12.07.2024 10

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Jane Macdougall

The Bookless Club: Unpacking packing

There are a variety of approaches to packing. Personally, I take the highly academic approach. Well, in theory, I take the highly academic approach....

12.07.2024 10

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The Bookless Club: Freak accidents

There are moments when you recognize that life is uncertain, full of variables and unforeseeables. You can save this article by registering for free...

05.07.2024 10

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The Bookless Club: Freak accidents There are moments when you recognize that life is uncertain, full of variables and unforeseeables.

05.07.2024 10

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The Bookless Club: Are sunglasses the ultimate cool accessory? Sunglasses aren’t a terribly new innovation. People have been striving to manage sunlight for centuries.

29.06.2024 20

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The Bookless Club: Are sunglasses the ultimate cool accessory?

Sunglasses aren’t a terribly new innovation. People have been striving to manage sunlight for centuries. You can save this article by registering...

29.06.2024 10

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The Bookless Club: Four-legged, plus ones

Up to about a dozen years ago, pets stayed home. I bet you never saw a dog in a store or a restaurant. Today, people want to take their pets...

22.06.2024 10

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club flies solo

Opinion: Nora was an only child. Being an old child suited her just fine. Even on Christmas morning, she was entirely satisfied with the arrangements....

07.06.2024 10

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The Bookless Club: As gardens shrink, neighbourhoods suffer Opinion: The rush to densify is killing green space in our city neighbourhoods

17.05.2024 20

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The Bookless Club: As gardens shrink, neighbourhoods suffer

17.05.2024 30

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club will rule the world What shall we call them? Oversights? Bungles? A preponderance of laxities? You know what I’m talking about — situations where the easy fix is just so very obvious, and yet they persist. In the face of all reason, they persist.

10.05.2024 20

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club will rule the world

10.05.2024 60

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club: Champagne vs. ... Perry?

I don’t like champagne. There. I’ve said it. You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. I don’t...

03.05.2024 50

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club translates its 'familects'

Opinion: Familect is what you get when you smush the words “family” and “dialect” into one word. And you end up with "sqwacks" and "sqwans"....

12.04.2024 10

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club translates its 'familects' Opinion: Familect is what you get when you smush the words 'family' and 'dialect' into one word. And you end up with 'sqwacks' and 'sqwans.'

12.04.2024 10

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club loves a bargain

Got a parking ticket? Life is short. You pick your battles. You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account....

05.04.2024 10

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club loves a bargain Got a parking ticket? Life is short. You pick your battles.

05.04.2024 30

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Jane Macdougall: Humanity and professionalism calm the potential storm of an ER incident Opinion: We want our police to be models of uninterrupted forbearance. Even if many of us couldn’t lay claim to the same.

29.03.2024 10

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Jane Macdougall: Humanity and professionalism calm the potential storm of an ER incident

Opinion: We want our police to be models of uninterrupted forbearance. Even if many of us couldn’t lay claim to the same. You can save this article...

29.03.2024 10

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club does the math in time for Easter

This week the Bookless Club maps out how we're all related. You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account....

23.03.2024 10

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club does the math in time for Easter This week the Bookless Club maps out how we're all related.

23.03.2024 10

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club says, 'Not today'

My mom asks what the matter is. I tell her I don’t want her to die. You’ll leave the milk out. The basement door wide open. When the call...

15.03.2024 10

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club says, 'Not today' My mom asks what the matter is. I tell her I don’t want her to die.

15.03.2024 20

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club wonders if we make ourselves late or does lateness happen to us? Opinion: Lateness isn’t always your fault. And really, except for rocket launches, does five minutes one way or the other really affect much?

08.03.2024 10

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club wonders if we make ourselves late or does lateness happen to us?

Opinion: Lateness isn’t always your fault. And really, except for rocket launches, does five minutes one way or the other really affect much?...

08.03.2024 10

Vancouver Sun

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club's lifetime of museum memories

What resonates with one person may fall flat for another. My son was entranced by the Rembrandts at the Frick Museum in New York City. He was 10. Some...

01.03.2024 10

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club's lifetime of museum memories What resonates with one person may fall flat for another. My son was entranced by the Rembrandts at the Frick Museum in New York City. He was 10.

01.03.2024 10

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club has money in the (piggy) bank

What are you going to put in a modern-day piggy bank? E-transfers? Bitcoin? It seemed like the perfect gift for a four year old. It was a piggy...

23.02.2024 10

Vancouver Sun

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Jane Macdougall: The Bookless Club has money in the (piggy) bank What are you going to put in a modern-day piggy bank? E-transfers? Bitcoin?

23.02.2024 10

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