Happy 20th Anniversary
Where does 20 years go? For Alex and I, it was LavaLife. Yep, an online dating site. We’re one of those. To be fair, the real thing LavaLife did was connect two people who probably wouldn’t have met any other …
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A Top Gun Anniversary
Alex has a thing for 80s movies. I mean, I do, too – some of my favourites are from the 80s – but she has a particular love for Top Gun. When its sequel, Top Gun: Maverick came out, we saw it in the theatre. …
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10th Anniversary of the CBC 50th Anniversary VIA Rail Train
Ten years ago today, I boarded a shuttle bus from a hotel in Vancouver, and met some of the most amazing people I’ve ever had the pleasure — nay, honour — to know and work with. (Believe me, I’ve worked with a lot of …
A year in Canada
A year ago tonight, my family returned to Canada from Costa Rica. We had lived abroad for a year and a half, and had done our best to make a go of a new life in a new country. But it wasn’t to be, and we finally came to …
20 years of blogging (and Post
Well, okay, not so much “blogging” as journaling, but most of them are now online for everyone to ignore. Twenty years ago, I got to do something that (comparatively) very few westerners got to do, and will …
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9 years ... and counting
Today marks yet another notch on the belt of my career. Today, I’ve been at Critical Mass (or within the Critical Mass family, anyway) for nine years. It’s weird. Very weird. I’m actually having trouble comprehending …
That's one small step for a baby...
Today is Alex’s and my third anniversary. Three years ago, I had no idea that I would one day be living in a different country, with a beautiful daughter, experiencing a totally different way of life. That is one of the …
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A Decade since the Soviet Union, Birthday of the Observer
10 years. I can’t believe it has been 10 years. On 30 June 1989, I departed for the first of what would become a string of interesting journeys into the unknown. This was my first trip out of North America, and my first …