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The Beautiful Delay: Why Soccer Still Grips The Smartphone-Trained Brain

This essay showed up on my FB timeline from some guy called John Gregory I thought it was pretty insightful so am re-posting… After watching Portugal register just one shot on goal during the Portugal-DR Congo World Cup match the other day, I scratched my head over how soccer can be the world’s most popular […]

¶ Posted 23 June 2026 § Family § MemoryLane § News § Pace § PopCulture § Sports § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, economics, education, television

Saturday Snap – Farewell Aunt Sandi (2026 Edition)

My mom’s sister, Sandi, has been coming from Kelowna to stay with us in Regina for about a month every spring ever since my son was born. Since my mom was diagnosed with dementia she’s ended up spending more of her time in Indian Head so she can be with mom. She’s also been coming […]

¶ Posted 06 June 2026 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: parents

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Cuba Cuties (March 2011, Jan 2016)

So fortunate to have had multiple trips with both sets of grandparents – our wedding in Mexico and Dominican Republic with all four of them, Cuba separately with each of them different years and various other locations as well – Mexico, Hawaii, etc. Hard to believe this was 10 years ago… And this was 15 […]

¶ Posted 02 April 2026 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, cute, holiday, parents

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Ahoy Matey! (Feb 2017)

¶ Posted 05 February 2026 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, holiday, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “I’ll Have Your Finest Orange Crush, Please!” (January 2016)

¶ Posted 29 January 2026 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, cute, holiday, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Three Monkeys (Feb 2017)

¶ Posted 22 January 2026 § MemoryLane § Pace § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, holiday, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Sentiment Still Applies (March 2020)

¶ Posted 15 January 2026 § MemoryLane § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, history

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – New Year’s Eve in Cuba (Dec 2015)

I’ll start by saying that my wife is an absolute smokeshow (so I know this will be the first line of my annual “First Line of My First Post of Each Month”) next December! 😉 The only time we did an all-inclusive over the Xmas holiday season was when we went to Cuba with my […]