Five Fast Fact for Friday: Exterminator
Exterminators provide a service that you might not think about or value much – until your deck has been eaten by termites or bats have made a home in your eaves. Here are five...
Five Fast Facts for Friday: Henry Ford
Henry Ford used his imagination and skills to change the automobile industry. Here are five fast facts you may not know about Henry Ford: Ford’s first working automobile was a quadricycle that he couldn’t...
Five Fast Facts for Friday: Landslides
Often, the deadliest landslides happen with little warning. I have driven through the Frank Slide in the Crowsnest Pass many times and always find it quite eerie to consider that some of the town’s...
Five Fast Facts for Friday: Japan
I visited Japan in 1991 and found it was a country of paradoxes – the latest in high tech devices sold a block away from a centuries-old temple, and brides dressed in traditional red...
Five Fast Facts for Friday: Anne Frank
Anne Frank’s story is well-known around the world. Here are five fast facts you may not know: In 2013, more than one million people visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. The play, The...
Five Fast Facts for Friday: Manta Rays
When I’m swimming in the ocean, it’s always in the back of my mind that a ray could be underfoot. They’re flat, well-camouflaged and downright scary. Remember how Steve Irwin died? As I researched...
Five Fast Facts for Friday: Flight
If you could become an animal, what would you choose? I would like to be a bird, able to soar over mountains and deserts. When I was researching facts for this book, I discovered many...
Five Fast Facts for Friday: Gorillas
I could watch the gorillas at the zoo for hours. Did you know they are the largest of the apes and live only in the forests of Africa? Here are a few more facts about gorillas:...
Five Fast Facts for Friday: Gemstones
Minerals that are beautiful, durable and rare are called gemstones. Here are a fewthings you might not know about gemstones: The Star of India is the world’s largest sapphire. It was discovered more than...
Five Fast Facts for Friday: Hibernation
It’s winter, and I would dearly love to curl up with a blanket and hibernate. But…in true hibernation, an animal is close to death. Its heart and breathing almost stop. Here are five fast...
Students at St Williams School Rock!
I love going into schools — students remind me that reading is fun and creating is magical. When life at the keyboard becomes tedious, visiting with students, particularly Division 1, remind me why...
Last year was a little buggy
It’s not often a book makes me itchy. In fact, it’s only happened twice. I knew I was in for a bit of discomfort when I began researching material for a book about lice. ...
Who have YOU met on the internet?
If you look carefully, you can find some fascinating, helpful people through the internet. While writing Dirty Jobs: Coal Miner (published by Weigl, 2014), I was challenged to find accurate, reliable details about modern...
Revisiting Selena Gomez
It has been a couple of years since I wrote Remarkable People: Selena Gomez. I went back through the book again to create the Quiz and was impressed – again – by how hard...
Test your trivia knowledge: Michael Phelps
Here’s a quiz to test how much you know about one of the best-known athletes in the United States and around the world. At the London Olympics, he became the most-decorated Olympian of all time. ...
Hables Espanol?
I can order three beer in Japanese and ask for directions to the washroom in French, but I can’t claim to be truly fluent in any language other than English. And sometimes even that’s...
