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Secular Sunday – “That’s God Blowing Your Love Around The World”

Sunday March 5 is our 20th wedding anniversary and there’s a fitting story from our Mexican Beach Wedding for Secular Sunday. We used a wedding coordinator in Mexico to make arrangements including specifically requesting a non-religious officiant. The guy showed up the day of our ceremony and it was clear that he actually was *quite* […]

Posted 05 March 2023 § Family § Photo § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Varadero Sunset

Yes, we were in the Mayan Riviera, not Varadero. Yes, I technically quit drinking booze at the end of last August (but with the caveat that I *mostly* quit which allows me to still imbibe occasionally – or more than occasionally if I’m at an all-inclusive resort!) But yes, this drink we invented a few […]

Posted 04 March 2023 § Photo § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Snow Seats (January 2011)

A lot of snow in our old house’s front yard back then…

Posted 02 March 2023 § Family § Pace § Photo § Shea § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Drive From Cancun Airport to Tulum

The resort we were just at was almost all the way to Tulum (which is two hours south of Cancun.). Our resort was about an hour and a half south of the Cancun airport.  

Posted 01 March 2023 § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Sheets of empty canvas/Untouched sheets of clay/Were laid spread out before me/As her body once did/All five horizons/Revolved around her soul/As the earth to the sun”

“Black” – Pearl Jam

Posted 27 February 2023 § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Foam Party (March 2019)

It looks like fun but there were a couple times during the Foam Party at Hyatt Ziva in Cancun when I felt absolute terror – no lie.  The foam would get so thick and high near the foam cannon that it would encompass you and you literally couldn’t breathe! Hopefully I do better at the […]

Posted 16 February 2023 § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Happy Valentine’s Day, Shea!

Thanks for putting up with me for 20+ years!      

Posted 14 February 2023 § Family § Photo § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “I just wanna feel real love/Feel the home that I live in/’Cause I got too much life/Running through my veins/Going to waste”

When Shea and I got married on the beach in Mexico in 2003, this song was in heavy rotation on one of the music channels in our hotel room. (In fact, I briefly thought she might call off the wedding to pursue Robbie Williams.  Or if she didn’t, I might as he’s just that damn […]

Posted 13 February 2023 § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Our (Legal) Wedding Twenty Years Ago (February 2003)

A few days ago, I posted how it was our 20th anniversary (at least of our legal wedding, not of the ceremony we had on the beach in Mexico a month later which is the anniversary we “count”.) Here’s a picture from our legal wedding (and coincidentally, my cousin who stood up with me happens […]

Posted 09 February 2023 § Family § Humour § Photo § Shea § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “It’s knowing that this can’t go on forever/Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone/Maybe we’ll get forty years together/But one day I’ll be gone/Or one day you’ll be gone”

I’ve told the story on this blog a few times before how Shea and I technically got married three times (with the related joke that most men can’t keep track of one anniversary and I have to remember three.  Or, flipping that, I have three chances to remember it!) To recap… Our Three Weddings * Feb […]

Posted 06 February 2023 § Humour § List § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: