Category: family
It’s my sister’s birthday today and I want to wish her the happiest of days and many, many more! For those of you who don’t know my sister, she is a remarkable woman. A harder working person you will not find ((And coming from me, that’s saying something, if I do say so myself. Which […]
I have one niece and one nephew. Why is there no word in the English language that would allow for me to refer to them together? If you have a brother (or brothers) and a sister (or sisters), you can call them your siblings. If you have a mom and a dad, you can call […]
Isn’t it sad that I’m so thankful to have had a weekend without classes… so I can get more homework done? The past two weeks have been just killer for me. It started off two Sundays ago with a 10:30 pm hockey game. Which meant – after playing, getting all my gear off, driving home, […]
A year ago today, my Dad had his last thought. I don’t know exactly what it was, but I’ve been assuming that the anesthesiologist who put him under for his brain surgery asked him to count backwards from 10 and the last thing he said was probably 10-9-8… What was the last thing he said […]
Today is my Mom’s 66th birthday. As you know, my Mom is an amazing lady! She’s taught me so many things, always been there to support me through all my crazy adventures, and raised me to be curious, driven, positive, hard working – basically, all the attributes that have helped me to be successful. I […]
Hey, remember that time I walked on the outside of one of the tallest buildings in the entire world? No? I can see how you’d have forgotten about it, since the photos I posted don’t nearly do justice to the terror of actually being there. Also not quite doing justice, but much closer to conveying […]
Since I was in Ontario so soon after Thanksgiving, my family decided that we’d have a belated Thanksgiving feast while I was there. Being that it was so close to Halloween, my niece dubbed the event “Thankoween!” Thankoween was celebrated this year by my sister, her bf & their kids, me, my mom, my Aunt […]
So, for some reason I thought it was a good idea to go to one of the tallest buildings in the world on an extremely windy day and walk around the outside of it with only a couple of ropes keeping me from falling to my death 1,168 ft below. It’s called the CN Tower […]
As I write this, I’m on a plane somewhere between Vancouver and Toronto, on the first leg of my journey to Montreal for a 2-day workshop where I will share my research progress with, and learn about the research progress of, other researchers who are in the same funding cohort as me. I had grand […]
Today is my sister’s birthday. And what can I say about my sister that I haven’t already said? If you’ve been a reader here for any length of time, you know that my sister is a made of kickass, wrapped in awesomeness, dipped in brilliance, and deep-fried in best-sister-ever-ness. My sister is my go-to person […]