How our anniversary dinner echoed our life together

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We recently celebrated our 11th anniversary and I made arrangements for us to go to d'lish, an amazing little place here in Edmonton on 124th Street, who promised me they'd make our evening special. Though we were excited by all the choices on … [Read more...]

When a heart stops

Is it a good thing or a bad thing?  You can look at this from a lot of angles, but for today, I'm going to define heart-stopping moments as those where something affects you to the point where you feel like you could die.  Based on this very loose … [Read more...]

Crazy fragile, crazy resilient

I had a conversation recently that reminded me of how amazing we are as human beings. As I've documented in previous posts, I've experienced a fair share of speed bumps on the road of life.  I lost my dad and my brother in the same summer, I was … [Read more...]

Saying goodbye

How do you feel about saying good-bye?  How do you do it?  Something crossed my mind the other day, and I thought I'd share it, and hope to hear from some of you if you have some thoughts on it. How many times have we said good-bye to people? … [Read more...]

If you could go back…

I want to follow up my last blog post with this one.  In having thought about growing up and always wanting to be older, I realized that I'd arrived there and frankly, being older isn't as great as I thought it would be. Don't get me wrong - I'm … [Read more...]

I miss my Dad

I've told people this story - and I have a lot of friends that know it just from being part of my life.  But I've never spent the time to put my thoughts down on paper, or on screen, about this. In September 1992, when I was 18, we learned that my … [Read more...]