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The Bookless Club: What is in your travel arsenal?

The Bookless Club: What is in your travel arsenal?
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Vancouver Sun

Jane Macdougall

The Bookless Club: How do you deal with sleeplessness?

The Bookless Club: How do you deal with sleeplessness?
16.03.2025 10

Vancouver Sun

Jane Macdougall

The Bookless Club: How do you deal with sleeplessness? It’s officially three days past my bedtime.

16.03.2025 10

The Province

Jane Macdougall

The Bookless Club: What is your horticultural specialty?

09.03.2025 10

Vancouver Sun

Jane Macdougall

The Bookless Club: Any old-timey edibles that you miss? Opinion: There on the tray were four oat encrusted blocks. “Oh my!” I exclaimed. “Matrimonial Squares! Where on earth did you get these?”

02.03.2025 5

The Province

Jane Macdougall

The Bookless Club: Any old-timey edibles that you miss?

02.03.2025 10

Vancouver Sun

Jane Macdougall

The Bookless Club: What’s your song? And why? Opinion: When I think of my dad, I think of the song, "The Red River Valley".

24.02.2025 8

The Province

Jane Macdougall

The Bookless Club: What’s your song? And why?

23.02.2025 20

Vancouver Sun

Jane Macdougall

The Bookless Club: Do you sew, knit or craft?

16.02.2025 10

Vancouver Sun

Jane Macdougall

The Bookless Club: Do you sew, knit or craft? Where would you go today if you needed a zipper? Have you bought buttons of late? Name a fabric store today.

16.02.2025 10

The Province

Jane Macdougall

The Bookless Club: What does it mean to be Canadian?

09.02.2025 10

Vancouver Sun

Jane Macdougall

The Bookless Club: Dinner dresses? Miss 'em? The dinner dress’s main feature was its curb appeal — how it looked when viewed from across a table. That was key.

26.01.2025 10

The Province

Jane Macdougall

The Bookless Club: Dinner dresses? Miss 'em?

26.01.2025 20

Vancouver Sun

Jane Macdougall

The Bookless Club: What surprising lessons came to you late in life? Opinion: Learning is an education as an adult.

19.01.2025 10

The Province

Jane Macdougall

The Bookless Club: What surprising lessons came to you late in life?

19.01.2025 10

Vancouver Sun

Jane Macdougall

The Bookless Club: What separated you from your cash when you were a kid?

12.01.2025 10

Vancouver Sun

Jane Macdougall

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

Opinion: Here’s a story of unbridled audacity that I heard at a Christmas open house party... You can save this article by registering for free...

22.12.2024 4

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 5

The Province

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...

15.12.2024 7

Vancouver Sun

Jane Macdougall

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 7

The Province

Jane Macdougall

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...

01.12.2024 5

Vancouver Sun

Jane Macdougall

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...

22.11.2024 4

Vancouver Sun

Jane Macdougall

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 3

The Province

Jane Macdougall

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 10

Vancouver Sun

Jane Macdougall

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...

18.10.2024 3

Vancouver Sun

Jane Macdougall

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 5

The Province

Jane Macdougall

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

04.10.2024 8

The Province

Jane Macdougall

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 3

Vancouver Sun

Jane Macdougall

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

27.09.2024 3

The Province

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 2

Vancouver Sun

Jane Macdougall

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 3

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Jane Macdougall

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 10

Vancouver Sun

Jane Macdougall

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 3

The Province

Jane Macdougall

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...

06.09.2024 2

Vancouver Sun

Jane Macdougall

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 1

Vancouver Sun

Jane Macdougall

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 3

The Province

Jane Macdougall

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 4

Vancouver Sun

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 3

The Province

Jane Macdougall