Semi-Annual Anger
‘Spring-ahead’ for daylight savings time occurred this week and my disdain for stupidity was running at an all-time high. When my 4:45...
Just Look Up
While visiting our house this week Popa asked a question while peering out the living room window. “Is it an optical illusion or can you...
Good Morning, Chatty Cathy
The best way to stay energized and motivated during a morning workout is NOT to have two children talk incessantly ‘at’ you. They kindly...
Forged in Fire
I recently began a journey that I know my 80 year old self would be disappointed if I had not explored, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ). I was...
Gimmicks
Nature kindergarten, fifteen different high school class options, and the red ‘cheese whiz’ toast I made for Hazel this morning. Gimmicks...
New Gear
Consumerism is not the means to happiness. Anytime I find myself lusting after a new vehicle, toy, or gimmick I recognize this clear sign...
Unpredictable wins
It turns out that a magnetic dartboard which my daughters were not using ended up being the centrepiece of my classroom over the past six...
Look closer
While learning about inheritance and heredity in Science 9, I often take close up images of student eye colour. It is amazing what the...
Lessons from dodgeball
At lunch this week I was part of a team of teachers that won the intramural dodgeball tournament. The final match was against a group of...
Be Patient
I watched a ‘mousetrap powered car’ in my mechanics class leave the starting line so slowly that it appeared to be a failure. It took a...
Leave 2023 ‘richer’
As the end of the most challenging teaching semester of my career comes to a close, I am reflecting on all the lessons learned through...
Litter box
Karina asked me if I had heard the rumour about a local high school student that requires a litter box at school because they identify as...
Lost in translation
“But goodies, what is a ‘but goodie’?” I asked the cashier at the local pharmacy where Olive, Hazel, and I attempted to fill a Christmas...
Find the ‘right’ place
Certain places have the ability to bring out the best in us. The people, energy, layout, lighting etc, all come together to make us...
OpenAI… Google on steroids
I just spent the last ten minutes trying to stump the OpenAI chat bot, or more specifically seeking solutions to the most relevant...
Task Saturation
One of my pilot heroes, Dick Ruttan, shared a concept that has stuck with me for life, the ‘task saturation box’. As humans we have the...
Because he first loved us
I love the keepsake we bought at the fundraising auction for the Catholic School where Olive attended grade one. A group craft consisting...
Nothing beats FUN
Adult life has an unsavoury tendency to always resort back to serious. Humans created paper deadlines, layer upon layer of bureaucratic...
Redundancy
It took a furnace failure on a -20 Celsius Sunday to remind me of the importance of building redundancy into our lives. As soon as the...
The solution may be closer than you think
My Filson water bottle was taken out of rotation months previous due to a damaged handle that was making it hard to carry around. I had...