Will this make me better?
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...
It’s ‘who’ you are with that makes it great.
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...
To make mistakes is human… take responsibility and move on!
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’?
“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...
Kid Enthusiasm... more please!
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...
Just laugh it off
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...
A life of Service
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....
What have I been preaching?
I get quite a bit of entertainment from fun little ‘Catholic readings’ that my Grandpa leaves on my office desk. These treasures often...
Improve yourself with data
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...
Breathe some new life into your old machine
Karina and I have been religious about following the ‘KonMari’ method of only keeping things around us that truly bring joy. Sock drawer…...
Avoid a self-awareness failure
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...
Is it time for a gratitude injection?
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...
Opening gates for Papa
I am observing so many great memories being created during ‘back-up’ child care days. When tummy pains kept my seven year old daughter...
Maybe it’s time to REFOCUS
Our first baby boy, Friendo (Jack Russell) turned 14 recently. I will confess that I do not love our midnight routine of panicked...
What are your foggy windows?
“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...
The reaction tells the real story
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...
Would your 80 year old self be proud?
I had a magical moment on lunch supervision last week. My two beautiful daughters, Hazel (kindergarten), and Olive (grade 2), helped me...
Maybe a disruption to the routine is not so bad.
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...
A puzzling leadership connection
This week we finished our fourth Wentworth puzzle. These beautiful wood puzzles from Great Britain are works of art. There was a moment...
They even picked amazing bananas!
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...