We started to watch “The Motorcycle Diaries” the other night and a Google search during the movie ended up leading to the sad news that Alberto Granado, Che’s companion on the voyage that gave the book and movie its name, passed away in Havana during the time we were in Cuba. He died on March […]
I was going to do a list of some of the highlights of our trip (and still might) but I just came across a business card for a taxi while sorting the various papers I accumulated during the trip and so I thought I’d focus instead, on one of the singular highlights of our trip. […]
Here’s a few more photos from our trip, set to one of Cuba’s most popular songs…
Pace has been counting down the “sleeps” until we go to Cuba on Thursday. Meanwhile his daddy has been counting down “how many days left of standing at the bus stop freezing my butt off?” 😉 We leave Thursday for a week’s vacation and since Cuba is one of the least connected countries in the […]
The Best Part of Shaving The Winter Beard, originally uploaded by headtale. …is getting to carve out all manner of redneck, yokel and classic facial hair styles as you whittle it down to “clean-shaven.” (For the record, Regina is still fricken freezing – made worse by a thaw the other week that’s turned Regina into […]
Today is apparently Blue Monday, the most depressing day of the year… …as well as Martin Luther King Jr. Day which makes it also one of the most celebratory, uplifting days of the year. (I hope the world doesn’t explode.)
I’ve done this every year since I started this blog and once again, here’s a quick summary of my 2010 in meme form: 1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Since my grandparents lived in BC for most of my life (they left Saskatchewan the year I was born so how’s that […]
With some beautiful weather today, we decided to head to the elementary school near our house to do some tobogganing this afternoon. There’s a small hill behind the school which is “Pace-sized” – except some enterprising folks had seen fit to create an ice run on the hill, build a jump at the bottom of […]
Just to finish off Atheism Week, a Christmas Story… Like so many kids, I was a total believer in Santa Claus when I was a kid – unlike my experiences at church, not one aspect of the story rang false – probably because I so strongly *wanted* to believe. Magic sacks that could hold enough […]
