Ottawa 2010
Beautiful city. Weird circumstances. 4 days of frantic runaround, 500 photos and an hour of video later, the edible Nikki and I arrived home in time for the cats to leap on us with a cry of ‘Where the beep …
Whether to laugh or to cry is a lifestyle decision. Choose.
Beautiful city. Weird circumstances. 4 days of frantic runaround, 500 photos and an hour of video later, the edible Nikki and I arrived home in time for the cats to leap on us with a cry of ‘Where the beep …
Once upon a vacation, I found myself in a hotel in Portugal with a girl. That was OK, we went there together. Excellent hotel, excellent staff. Crap patrons. The place was full of Brits. And not good ones. These were …
I remember…a wedding. It was a good wedding. An enjoyable one. One where I took my children before they were old enough to drink, smoke, or tell me to do anything physically impossible with myself.
In my twenties I lived with my family at the top of a steep hill, roughly 400-500 feet long. Narrow street, cars parked both sides of the road, tight packed snow turning to ice on a 35 degree slope. Perfect. …
September 6, 1981 My mom’s birthday. My twin girls, Donna and Dawn, are scheduled for their first day at school. Mom is heavily pregnant. Her waters broke later that day and she gave birth on the 7th. No way were …
I am for some reason reminded of an event shortly after my daughter Vicky was born. I was 18, she was three months old. We took her to the doctors during the day for an examination. She was off colour, …
There were four skin colours in my childhood. Coal black, loofer pink, mud grey and blood red.
Surprisingly, we laugh a lot. Life is for living. If we ever forget that, it comes back with a heart stopping flood when the next emergency siren floats across the air and all conversation stops.
I landed some pick-up work sub contracting a web site build. Should keep me going until X-mas and is worth…well. X-mas is covered, put it that way, and the credit card can take a week off. I also heard that …
On the approach to a very tricky bend in the road (involving almost a half turn of the steering wheel) the driver in front slowed almost to a stop. As we straightened up after the bend he did stop. There …