I wrote this for my maternal Grandfather’s memorial service. He died while I was living in Mexico, and I found it again today when I was looking for a photo of him in his military uniform for a Facebook post about Remembrance Day / Veteran’s Day. I thought I would share it to remind everyone to take … Read more
Sometimes it seems like a lot more people live in this house. A lot more people with long blonde hair. I don’t discount the possibility that someone in the family is harboring a sasquatch or a giant shaggy dog in their room. I swear blonde hair is magnetically attracted to black fabric and dark floor tiles. … Read more
If you’re using Instagram to share photos with your friends and family, this tip won’t mean anything to you. If you’re using Instagram to build your brand, then you are certainly using hashtags to build your audience. There are a lot of ways to add your hashtags, like having a note on your phone that … Read more
Every year in September I start taking advantage of Shutterfly card deals. That’s why I’m already splattering Christmassy stuff on my site before Halloween, but now is the time to get your holiday card ordered. I never used to start thinking about Christmas cards until I started receiving them in the mail and realized it was … Read more
Offspring and I were invited to attend the first official Vancouver Kids Fashion Week for their Spring Summer 2017 Fashion Shows. It was a two day fashion event dedicated to children’s fashion and a fundraiser for BC Children’s Hospital Foundation. We were only able to make it on Saturday because of a prior commitment to attend a birthday party … Read more
I’ve made no secret about the fact that I’ve been married 3 times. I’m great at sealing the deal, and have always figured I’m lousy at the execution of the contract. Lately though, Ive worried that I’ve been Wookin’ Pa Nub in all the wrong places. In the interest of getting a fresh start, I even assembled … Read more
I’ve heard over and over that you can never go home. In my experience you can come home after long term travel, or at least I can, and I did. I left Canada in my early 20’s and have visited 34 countries, and lived long term in several of those. I finally returned home at age 45, … Read more
That time we performed a rescue at sea of a multi-million dollar yacht that was foundering off the coast of Cuba and didn’t claim salvage… X2 and I did a couple of extended trips to the boatyard in Florida with the M/Y Aries. Near the end of our first big refit we met a gang … Read more