The Wonderful Christmas
Genesis 33:5: “And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the woman and children, and said, who are those with thee? And he said, the children which God has graciously given thy servant.”
Children a
The Quest For Shoes
Most of us live to buy that perfect pair of shoes that seem to beckon when we walk past that glass window. It can be those athletic tennis shoes with the sleek designs that almost instantly encoura
Hello From Toronto A Culinary Tour Of The St. Lawrence Market & An Exploration Of Historic St. Lawrence Hall
October 6, 2005
Life works in really strange and wonderful ways. At the beginning of this week I talked to my brother in Austria on the phone, and he said he'd been reading this German trave
Hello From Cuba (13) Exploring Downtown Havana
Hotel Habana Libre, Thursday, April 14, 2005, 3:02 pm
The last few days I have spent quite a bit of time walking around downtown Havana - or Habana Vieja, as they say around here. It is an e
A Crazy Night In Vegas
It was a Sunday afternoon. My friend Kurt and I met for lunch. We kept talking about our upcoming trip to Vegas. We were scheduled to leave that Thursday and return 3 days later. "This food tastes
Being Grown up..
The thought of what it takes to be a grown-up has been bothering me lately. Does it really have something to do with age or is there really such thing as a standard or requirements in becoming a gr
Hello From Quebec (Magog) 2
Sunday, March 13, 2005
So I am cheating a little, I am already back in Toronto, writing this little summary of the second half of our trip to Quebec. While we didn’t ski on Wednesday because
Isla Mujeres And Its Glass Bottom Boat Ride
One spring morning in 1977, we crawled out of our tent - relieved that the sun brought an end to a night of hiding from sand fleas. We had made the mistake of camping behind a sand dune and not rig
Let Yourself Fall In Love With Literature
There are many simple but wonderful things in life that many people get too busy to think about or care about. I know that my own life has gotten so busy over the years that I have to be extremely
The Best Christmas Ever: Remembering Christmas With Emily
There is nothing to compare to the wonder and magic that a child experiences at Christmas. When my sons were small, there were many such moments. The look of awe on their faces the first time they
Hello From Toronto (5) Novice Golf, Driving Through The Kawarthas, A Little Off Road Mountain Biking & Preparing To Say Goodbye
It is unbelievable how nine days can just fly by. Today my brother, sister-in-law and our two Austrian friends are scheduled to fly back to Graz, Austria, via Vienna. There has been an increasingly
The First Harvest
First responders arrived at the home initially, followed soon thereafter by paramedics. We picked up the dispatch over the radio scanner and prepared our minds and equipment in trauma room one. Thi
Hello From The Ottawa River Learning How To Whitewater Kayak (And How The River Kicked My Ass...)
Way back when in February I went to the Outdoor Adventure Show and I twisted my friend Leslie's arm to go on a learn-how-to-kayak weekend with me. We booked 2 days including meals, kayaking lessons
Arrowhead Hunting And Rock Collecting
We weren't planning to go rock and arrowhead hunting in Arizona. My wife and I just liked that hotspring in the desert. It was agood place to escape the Michigan winter for a while.
Then we
Bringing Up Baby: Communing With A Humpback Whale
Did you ever have a moment in time when you think to yourself, “This is it. This is the moment. Life just can’t get any better.” And then, it does. Such a moment happened to me, last week, while wh
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