The smallest voice asks, his small, sticky hands curling into mine, "Mommy, where were you? Were you out fighting roars?"

“Mommy, what is time?” my two-and-a-half year old randomly asked me. I answered it as simply as I could but it got me questioning what I really think about time.

I was leaving the grocery store on a Sunday morning. Cart overflowing with the usual suspects: toilet paper, cheese, and an assortment of items my three year old decided to add to the stash.

My best moment of motherhood that made the past 17 years of being a parent all worthwhile was when we received my son's acceptance letter to university.

A list of locations where you can pick up the new Squamish Reporter newspaper.

You don’t have to be a finance whiz-kid or a marketing guru to become a successful entrepreneur. You don’t even need to have lots of money. Here are a few inspiring stories of ordinary people in Squamish who have built businesses by just following their need to succeed.

Masterton is one of the people who have bought pews from the Squamish United Church as it prepares to dismantle the old church for a Centrepoint project. The pew will sit in her home and remind her of the choir, her parents and the faith and love the church instilled in her.

HUMANs are not the only one to know the bonding power of touch. Courtney Driver knows it can strengthen the bond between animals and humans too. And if Bella could speak, she may have told you how much she loved the hour-long massages she received from Courtney.

Questions abound around alternative therapies, yet it's a growing trade in town. Driven by hope and faith, people flock to therapists mindless of what science says. If it works, it's science--even though science may yet not know.

Terry Aldridge drives cancer patients to Vancouver and keeps them in good humour with his jokes.