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Personal ExperienceWriting Samples

Cogs, Balance Springs and Pistons

April 10, 2017Gordon Ficke

Did you know that there are several “Swiss watch connections” with regards to automobiles? Discounting, of course, the watches most

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Personal ExperienceWriting Samples

Do you have a knife in your bag?

April 10, 2017Gordon Ficke

My face dropped, and there was an eerie silence as other travelers having their bags checked and X-ray scanned, all

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Personal ExperienceWriting Samples

Whack, Zip, Zap! What did I cut now?

April 10, 2017Gordon Ficke

Whack, zip, zap! The ride-on lawnmower sliced through the high weeds that bordered our property and the neighbours, with the

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Personal ExperienceWriting Samples

Finding a good wristwatch…

April 10, 2017Gordon Ficke

As a seventeen-year old teenager the last thing I wanted to do on a hot July day, was work. Especially

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Personal ExperienceWriting Samples

Cup Holders

April 10, 2017Gordon Ficke

Philosophically speaking, the transition from glove compartment trays to cup Holders is an example of how our culture has changed

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Personal ExperienceWriting Samples

Snowmen Galore!

April 10, 2017Gordon Ficke

She never imagined that what started innocently as making Christmas gifts for the children, would turn out to be a

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Historical SketchesWriting Samples

Another Heritage House Fills the Trash Bin! (Part two)

April 10, 2017Gordon Ficke

After living in the McKellar house for 31 years, Milton and Eva Gorman decided that it was time to move

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Historical SketchesWriting Samples

Another Heritage House Fills the Trash Bin! (Part one)

April 10, 2017Gordon Ficke

Not far below me off McIver Road in Glenrosa, I could hear the drone of an orange track hoe. The

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AutomotiveWriting Samples

Shakes, rattles, squeaks & thunks…(Anti-freeze)

April 10, 2017Gordon Ficke

We have an inherent nature within each one of us that tends to put important things off. When it comes

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AutomotiveWriting Samples

Ask the man who owns one

April 10, 2017Gordon Ficke

In 1941 The Packard Motor Car Company introduced the first of the handsome Clipper Line of cars. A 245.3 cubic

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Editors or Publishers wishing to purchase an article please e-mail a freelance writing agreement or contract to gficke@okanagan.net or mail to:

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V4T 1A2 Canada

Latest Articles

Snowmen Galore!

April 10, 2017

Another Heritage House Fills the Trash Bin! (Part one)

April 10, 2017

Cup Holders

April 10, 2017

Another Heritage House Fills the Trash Bin! (Part two)

April 10, 2017
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