Living

SOMEHOW we just had a feeling that a tasting with Sparky Marquis would be different.

LOVE is a four letter word . . . isn't it? Love is an emotion, a feeling, some people will even say it's an addiction. It can bring you up to the highest peaks and send you down to the deepest holes.

NOTICES Ladies Golf Group: New members are invited to join this seniors group that plays Wednesdays at 9 a.m. from April to September at Murdo Frazer Par 3 Golf Course, 2700 Pemberton Ave., North Vancouver.

Art of Fashion is a fashion show with related events celebrating locally made garments, jewelry and accessories, this Sunday, April 1, 2-4: 30 p.m.

AN overwhelming burst of colour greets customers as they enter the doors of Ivivva Athletica. A host of bright danceinspired separates adorn the walls and fill racks.

"CAN I have chocolate?" five-year-old Cynthia asks. "I'd like Rocky Road," her nine-year-old brother says. The kids are at their favourite ice-cream parlour getting ready to enjoy a cone with their mom.

I learned a new word recently: slacktivism.

IF you think of Montezuma, instead of cursing him for the "revenge" suffered by travelers throughout the ages, praise him for introducing the world to chocolate.

SOME gardening experts claim it's too early to get out in the garden and start working. I must disagree. It's not too early, especially here on the warm coast.