A Day in the Life

A Bit of Fun

Posted by Sandra on June 27, 2010 at 9:10 pm

Brainstorming on the VPD + a ‘word cloud‘ program = a pretty cool visual.

Backstory – Part 2

Posted by Sandra on June 24, 2010 at 10:45 am

Sunlight dappled across the deck and their friends conversation was the perfect backdrop for John to cup his wife’s neck and sneak a kiss; she was warm and smelled wonderful.  With some amount of regret John then pushed his chair back, stood up and said good-bye.  The barbeque had been a last minute get-together and [...]

Backstory – Part 1

Posted by Sandra on June 23, 2010 at 8:43 am

“Don’t watch the news after a major police call,” a senior officer once told me when I was new to the job, “because they always get it wrong.”
Years later, I’m not sure media outlets intentionally getting it wrong.  Yes, sometimes media coverage of a significant police-involved event is either inaccurate, unfair or biased (depending on [...]

Don’t Drink and Drive

Posted by Sandra on June 7, 2010 at 7:25 pm

Quite the title, isn’t it?
You’ve seen it, read it and heard it.  So much so, that I think many of us don’t even register the real issue behind the message and it no longer catches our attention.
But here is a commercial that will.
It’s meant for the holiday season so consider this as my early Christmas [...]

Choice

Posted by Sandra on May 30, 2010 at 1:44 pm

Twelve teenagers joined us the other night on a walking tour of the Downtown Eastside (DTES).  The point was to show them how important it is to make good life choices and to expose them to what hard core drug use can look like.  At the age when most kids are studying math and science [...]