Opinion

"Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there." - Jalal ad Din Muhammad Rumi, the 13 th -century Persian, Muslim poet, jurist, theologian and Sufi Mystic.

Winter driving is once again just around the corner with many new arrivals coming to Whistler for the 2011/2012 Ski Season. Last year we lost a wonderful young traveller who was hit by a vehicle on our local highway.

Less than two weeks after the passing of Apple visionary Steve Jobs the high-tech world lost another pioneer - the man who would make Jobs, Bill Gates and countless others possible.

"Play it again, Sam." Humphrey Bogart as Rick in Casablanca As romantic as the rock-and-roll lifestyle appears to outsiders, few who've ridden that roller-coaster ride would ever describe it as healthy. Or sane. It's a boom-and-bust world.

I admit it - when I saw the story running in the media recently about B.C. Premier Christy Clark's cleavage I felt like hitting my head against a brick wall.

I admit it - when I saw the story running in the media recently about B.C. Premier Christy Clark's cleavage I felt like hitting my head against a brick wall.

This whole pay parking in the day lots fiasco is inevitable. But for those of us that drive to work and have to park in the day lots, we are losing $1 per hour worked just to park.

Steve Jobs passed away on Oct. 5 after a long battle with cancer. He hung in until the end, only stepping down as Apple's CEO over the summer while keeping a raft of other titles and responsibilities with the company.

"I proudly sport a bumper sticker of the Hairfarmers on my pick-up truck. I just love those guys..." A female physiotherapist in Whitefish, Montana He's a Whistler icon. Just look at him. Long, wild hair below his shoulders.

As the old adage goes, there is nothing like a bit of "retail therapy" to burst people out of a rut, or the blues, or anything else we seek to escape when shopping calls.