Living

The evening I arrived in the tiny town of Kaunakakai on the Hawaiian Island of Molokai, there were few people on the streets and just a handful more in Friendly Market where I stopped to purchase a few essentials.

When you look back on your life when you have retired, on the closing stretch or with your last breaths, will you ask what you have done with your time? What will be the measure of this life? Your net worth? The vehicles you drove? The number of good

Six Vancouver water and splash parks are open for one more week through the Labour Day long weekend, including the marquee water-logged playgrounds at Granville Island and Stanley Park.

Parents, register your children (5+) for a family sports day at David Lam Park, Aug. 25 from 1-4pm.

In the old days, we said grace before dinner. Today, we pause to take photos of our food to post them on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook so everyone knows what weve ordered.

Last week I wrote about authenticity in food. We live in a multi-cultural city with endless ethnic dining options, so we end up using the term authentic loosely.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): An Indian student named Sankalp Sinha has invented the Good Morning Sing N Shock. Its an alarm clock that plays you a song and gives you a small electrical jolt when you hit the snooze button.

I recently hosted an event that was ostensibly a German Riesling 101 for some folks. It was towards the end, as I was starting to put glasses back into their racks, that a ladys comment summed up the whole evening.

Q: I have a Japanese maple tree in a container on my porch. It has green leaves that turn a lovely cream and pink colour from midsummer until its leaves fall. But it has mealy bugs on it. An insecticide powder hasn't corrected the problem.

The Deighton Cup brings style out of Vancouver