Ah, June… Summer is at our doorstep, the days are (almost all of them) seeming to get a little bit longer, and for the second year in a row I am partaking in my daily blogging exercise, marginally focused along a …

You know how everyone seems to have a dusty little folder in the back corner of their brain stuffed with a very small handful of really clear memories from their childhood? Occasionally something prompts you to open up that folder, and …

What I learned about the art of politics working at my last job is both simple and complex; It is simple because if one understands the nuances of high school popularity, there are many, many parallels that can be drawn between the …

A lot of the joking aside — but not all — this week is ramping up to a particularly significant (but hardly important or memorable) one-year anniversary for me. I thought, in light of that anniversary I would find some time …

I have a picture in my head of a sunny afternoon. Our backyard, living in the suburbs of Ottawa, had grass and a fence whose spans were raised just a few inches from the ground. The neighbor kid seemed so …

We went for dinner last night with Derek, Shannon, and Julia. I felt compelled to share this simply because it was one of those classic moments that I’m sure will slip from memory, save for the written record herein. Someday, we’ll …

It’s like a little chunk of family history coming to an end. Last night the sale went through on Grandma’s house and sixty-plus years of the little island of refuge and stability amidst the bustle of the city passes into a …

December 31
I started 2006 with a list from 2005: summing up the year, and such. Maybe it should be something of a year-end-blogging tradition: a cap to the “blog every day for a month” exercise. However it shapes up, …