For the past few weeks, we’ve had another good visit with my Aunt Sandi who comes out from BC every spring to spend time with us. Here’s a shot from one of her first visits the year Pace turned one…
We’ve been replacing our forty year old original fence in a series of mini-projects over the past five years. We started with the back part of our yard in May 2014 which was a major job as the neighbour directly behind us (no back alley) is at the end of a crescent on a pie-shaped […]
About four years ago, we came back from a camping trip to find that a neighbour’s tree had split and was being removed. One of the branches hung over the fence into our yard and Sasha had some tears when she realised she’d no longer have a swing. I had tears too but they were […]
While i was doing my Master’s program in London, ON, I went in to Toronto to attend BookExpo Canada. I wasn’t done my program but this might have been the first time I was referred to as a “Librarian” in any sort of semi-official capacity.
So I’ve finished my ten-part series on the various things that have contributed to how I became the person that I am. Some of the entries were stronger than others – more insightful and less narrative “I did this and then this and then this” but overall, they’ve been useful for me to consider those […]
Most couples meet through friends or dating sites or at church or the bar. The story of how Shea and I met is a bit more random. Her parents were at a funeral and happened to be talking to someone from my hometown. They mentioned their daughter was starting university in the fall and needed […]
When I was a kid, my single most disliked show on television was “Question Period“. It was on CTV, late on Sunday afternoons, and after a weekend of cartoons, Disney specials, movies, pro wrestling and hockey (er, I probably watched too much TV as a kid!), I hated that weekends in my two-channel universe […]
My standard line about farming is that, for whatever reason, I grew up more passionate about books than barley and more interested in computers than combines. With that said, I feel very fortunate that I grew up in a rural community as part of a farming family. I also managed to luck into getting the […]
Like a lot of people who convocate with a Bachelor’s degree, the biggest question is “Now what?” In 1996, I had an expensive English degree, a specialization in creative writing, and not a lot of other options. (The other big question you get asked, especially with an English degree is: “Are you going to be […]
After another week away from this series (honestly, I forgot I was doing this “How I Became Me” series last week after working a 1-9pm shift and, as I often do, whipping off a zero-effort post to keep my daily post streak alive instead of doing something a bit more in-depth and time-consuming.) Anyhow, […]
