Come and Knock on Her Door
It began when a pal posted a Facebook event. And down the rabbit hole I went. I discovered that I share my fondness for a 1970’s TV icon with thousands of other people.
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Kloss 2 Cross Another Great Lake for Mental Health
At age 24, our friend Jason Kloss became the youngest person to swim the 65 km crossing of Lake Huron. His grandfather had completed that swim three decades earlier. Jason raised $22,000 for cancer research and his life changed forever. He met a beautiful reporter, my former colleague Avery, who was covering the event. They just celebrated their ninth wedding anniversary, and they have a five-year-old daughter. And now he’s set his sights on Lake Ontario.
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Dancing to my Own Beat
A happy flashback happened again last Wednesday, as I popped into the washroom at Milestone’s where I’d been having lunch with my friend Laurie. Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’ was playing overhead and it transported me back to drum lessons, and how that song was the only one I came close to mastering.
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Billionaires Owe the World That Made Them
We like to watch old reruns of Shark Tank. For me, it’s not about seeing people become rich. It’s about people who need it getting a hand up from someone who has already been there, trying to make a dream come true. As we watch, I Google the company name and find out whether they are still in business, or what happened to them. But there’s an aspect of the show that I despise.
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Moving Toward Mindfulness with A New Writing Venture
I’ve referred to Stoicism several times on this page. I consider myself a student of the philosophy; I don’t think anyone ever has it “mastered”. Life throws too many curveballs for that to occur. And I’m very much a work in progress.
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How to Have an Idiot-free Future
Happy Belated Canada Day and Fourth of July! Despite all of the grumblings and mumblings, we North Americans are indeed fortunate to live where we do. I like to say we won the geographical lottery. (If you don’t count winter!)
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The Good Old Days Depend on Your Perception
“Kids today! (Hitches up stretchy pants to just below armpits.) They just don’t have the moral code we had when I was their age. Why, back in my day…”
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My Top Pro Tip for More Powerful Writing
Something I’ve learned about writing is, it’s better to use specifics than generalities. And that being vague is the worst of all writing sins.
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My Baby Brother and His Big Birthday
This is a rerun from 2018. Yesterday was my brother’s birthday! So in honour of him, I present this look at our lives as siblings.
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Vacation Notice and Father’s Day
We are off on a motorcycle trip! We are traveling Cape Breton’s Cabot Trail for the second time. It’s a bucket-list ride for our friend Tam, and we’re happy to do it again. It’s been (gulp) about 13 years since our first time around it.
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News Trauma and Its Antidote
Years ago, in a private Facebook messenger conversation, my pal Stacey told me that she used to combat the stress of college by watching videos of puppies on YouTube.
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Breaking Down the Wall of Sound
Traffic. Construction. Lawn Maintenance. Barking dogs. The world has gotten noisier. You might think that someone who wears hearing aids wouldn’t notice.
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Random Thoughts
Clothing manufacturers should have to agree on standard sizes. A person shouldn’t swim in a size 10 from one brand and not be able to pull a 10 from another brand over their body.
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The Cat in the Lap
The last time I wrote about Cuddles, he was recovering from a fairly serious issue. That was in March. Now, you’d never know it happened. He’s his old self.
…Fashion Compassion
My fashion sense – if I ever had any – has abandoned me.
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Proudly Launching a New Book: Trade Up
It’s been my goal to write fiction. Now, finally, my first fiction work is out.
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