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...

I am observing so many great memories being created during ‘back-up’ child care days. When tummy pains kept my seven year old daughter...

Our first baby boy, Friendo (Jack Russell) turned 14 recently. I will confess that I do not love our midnight routine of panicked...

“Wow, I’d forgotten we have a view!” Karina remarked after the first look out of our new living room windows that got installed this...

My best friend Scott just won $1,200,000 in a 50/50 draw. When he face-timed me in mild shock to reveal this news, there were a lot of...

I had a magical moment on lunch supervision last week. My two beautiful daughters, Hazel (kindergarten), and Olive (grade 2), helped me...

I may have cussed like a sailor when I found out that my work day routine had been disrupted by the sudden closure of my daughter Hazel’s...

This week we finished our fourth Wentworth puzzle. These beautiful wood puzzles from Great Britain are works of art. There was a moment...

It appears that I won’t be seeing as many adults wearing pyjama pants in public in the next little while. Let me explain. We are in our...