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Dec
15
2008

No Ordinary Christmas

By Irene Butler
Pix by Mick Linthorne
Published in Vancouver 24 Hrs, Coquitlam Now and Kamloops This week Newspapers. 
Lake Titicaca is a name all school kids know and giggle at, although most have no idea where it is – straddling as it does the border of Peru and Bolivia. Coming over a rise, our first view of [...]

Nov
23
2008

A Christmas Story

BABY JESUS and CABBAGE ROLLS
By Irene Butler
Published in The Cloverdale Reporter
I kept an eye on my Baba, and ran over to the wood stove each time she opened the oven door. Two blue roasters were side by side; one filled with cabbage rolls bubbling in tomato sauce, the other a nicely browning goose. I breathed [...]