Having a birthday in a pandemic-induced quarantine is probably not anyone’s first choice for a 9th birthday. But that is the situation that we find…
As you may recall, my family and I love to bake. And sometimes at Christmas, if I’m not in Ontario visiting, we cyberbake: I bake…
Those of you who know me in person are probably painfully aware that I am an extreme extrovert. So self-isolation and social distancing are quite…
Speaking of things that suck, it’s been eight years since the day my dad went into the brain surgery that, ultimately, resulted in his death.…
This pin was my dad’s. I believe it was in recognition of 10 years service at Mack Truck, where he worked for 24 years, until…
Today I turned the-answer-to-the-great-question-of-life-the-universe-and-everything years old. And to be honest, it’s not so bad. Granted, I only feel like I’m 30 and since it’s scientifically…
I’m back dating this posting to yesterday because I had it mostly written but didn’t quite get around to finishing it before I had to…
Typically I spend most of my Christmas break catching up on writing the eleventy thousand blog postings that I was too busy to write during…
My brother-in-common-law got a virtual reality (VR) game system for his and my sister’s family this year. So we’ve spent most of Christmas Eve doing this:…