As a former Calgarian who often worked closely with the city’s librarians via my role at the Writers Guild of Alberta (a highlight of my time in Calgary was being invited by one librarian to be her “community guest” at the opening of a new suburban branch that features a speech by well-known author and […]
This is still one of my favourite Halloween memories of all time. When Pace was around five years old, he was really into Bat-man. He had his costume all picked out so the night before Halloween, I figured out a great way to surprise him. I did a quick late night trip to the nearest pop-up […]
The greatest hockey video game of all-time is 25 years old with a still active fan base. Here’s the 2017/2018 Stanley Cup final as seen through the lens of NHL ’94:
Here’s a pic from this past summer of my folks in front of the United Church they got married at forty-seven years ago!
I’ve been tracking my music listening habits online via last.fm since 2005. It’s not like I look at my last.fm account daily but tonight, I realised that last.fm had stopped scrobbling (that’s the term for when any site that I listen to music on – Deezer, YouTube, etc. – sending the name of the song […]
Figured this would be a good week to dig deep in the photo albums for a shot from a weekend trip to Amsterdam our host college arranged while I was on a semester exchange to England in 1995. (That England trip will probably fill 7/10 spots if I ever do a “Fondest Pot Memories” list […]
With Shea in Halifax for a conference this week, it’s got me thinking of our last trip to the east coast when we visited Newfoundland for 10 days to attend a friend’s wedding and be tourists checking out the amazing sights. We’d briefly talked about me going to join her for a few days before […]
Who knew when we went parasailing at the Beach Palace (a sister resort to the Moon Palace where we were staying) last winter that we’d end up taking a picture of the resort we’d be staying at the following winter? But almost as soon as we got home from our amazing two-week getaway last year, […]
CalgaryPuck has lots of ideas and here’s a team preview from the Calgary Sun. But here are some of the things I’m excited about for the Flames this year as the NHL season begins tonight… A completely re-vamped line-up with lots of good young players Same with the coaching group which is (almost) completely revamped as […]
Our neighbour built a small ramp to help him move a new appliance in his house. Once he was finished with it, he brought it over and offered it to Pace (but I think he secretly meant it for me in case I ever decide to do a bike jump again!) And speaking of the […]
