Coronavirus is affecting us in ways big and small but one of the worst things is not being able to see the people you love in person anymore. So me and the kids threw together a “Virtual Birthday Card’ for Grandpa Ray as a placeholder until we get to see him in person! […]
During the current pandemic, RN doesn’t just stand for “Registered Nurse” – it stand for *Required* Nurse and our frontline healthcare workers are going above and beyond in the battle against COVID-19 in hospitals, testing sites and other locations around the world. I’m so proud to be married to a nurse who fills this vital […]
I would never have guessed that Joe Diffie would be the first celebrity COVID death (well, if a tier B 1990’s country singer counts as a celebrity but I liked quite a few of his songs back in the day so why not?) And if this helps even one Red Stater stay home, his death […]
It’s amazing how the hospital can be both the location for some of the happiest moments of people’s lives (births of children, news about diseases being beaten and bones being healed) and some of the worst (a loved one doesn’t make it after an accident, grandma’s last breaths on the palliative care ward, the diagnosis […]
Obviously, the pandemic is a shitty situation all around – people are losing their jobs, businesses are shutting down, our entire world has been disrupted in ways large and small. Still, I’m an optimist at heart and I can’t help but think of a few ways that I’m personally fortunate, even in the midst of […]
We just returned from a week at the Crown Paradise Club Cancun so I wanted to write a review of our resort while the memories are still fresh. HOW WE ENDED UP CHOOSING THE CROWN PARADISE CANCUN IN THE FIRST PLACE Having bought a house in the late fall, our streak of visiting an all-inclusive […]
Two drink-related posts in a row means I’m definitely on holidays! (Also had to commemorate that tequila shots were my wife’s idea tonight, not mine!!!) Some years I continue posting while on holidays and some years I don’t and I honestly have no idea if I’ll blog from Mexico or not but either way, hope […]
It’s sort of funny to think about how we’ve flown to the Cancun International Airport a handful of times over the past few years and it’s always the same WestJet flight we take every single year since we go the same week leaving and returning on the same day.
This past week might’ve been the longest non-holiday stretch I’ve gone without posting since I started this blog in 2006. I’ve been very preoccupied with a lot of other stuff so blogging dropped to the bottom of the To Do list. Luckily Saturday night was a long-planned, recurring gathering with friends to keep me distracted […]
Maybe not quite as nice as the all-inclusive Mexican resort I posted yesterday. But our “staycation” at the recently re-branded Atlas Hotel & Waterpark in Regina with both sets of grandparents was quite a fun way to spend Saturday night!
