When I saw my old sock, greyish from years of wear, sitting with a second place ribbon in the local fair this week I was a bit skeptical....

I have a working hypothesis that every failure is a communication failure. Plane crashes, broken relationships, missed deadlines,...

On a 2 hour flight to Victoria this week I was reminded of how uncomfortable many people are with silence. A loud-speaking lady, two rows...

I noticed myself getting a bit ‘crotchety' while closing out the past teaching year. I was complaining, mostly inside my own head, but...

I watched Olive make a last minute grab of her toppling wine (juice) glass last night and observed how fun it was to celebrate the...

There was a bit of a mystery this week when I walked into my shop and saw my bike pump strewn across the middle of the floor. I was...

While planning a mountain bike trip for the summer I was given two options for bicycles; 1- Bring my own questionably maintained, but...

I was intrigued to hear a friend's story last week about following a marked RCMP vehicle on the highway at exactly the speed limit, and...

Cleaning up my daughter’s birthday party at 10pm last Saturday, while indulging in an excess of treats and beverages, I wish I would have...

During my thirties I started to notice that on the rare and infrequent meet-ups with my funniest friends, the muscles in the back of my...

Imagine that your closest group of friends likes to share inappropriate content on a group text stream. The content is generally innocent...

“Am I a talky pants?” was the sweet question that our five year old Hazel asked Karina this week. This hint of self awareness, or self...

I turned 41 this week. For the days preceding my birthday I got the most enthusiastic and excited dialogue from Olive and Hazel. “Dad you...

My spidey senses were tingling when one of my High School Phys. Ed. students begged to take my only ‘Aerobie’ disc out to the field...

During a recent drive Karina and I were chatting about how to bring one of our friends out of the ‘funk’ that they have been in recently....

I get quite a bit of entertainment from fun little ‘Catholic readings’ that my Grandpa leaves on my office desk. These treasures often...

When I found out that my friend Will beat me to buying the ‘Whoop Strap’ fitness, sleep and recovery tracker, I was jealous. I had been...

Karina and I have been religious about following the ‘KonMari’ method of only keeping things around us that truly bring joy. Sock drawer…...

I’ve always thought that the antidote to ‘resting bitch face’ would be a mirror or a video camera. Surely once a person observed their...

A couple of weeks ago I had a grade 10 CALM class use a gratitude practice as an ‘exit pass’ to leave the day’s lesson. Most of the...