About six years ago I was knocked out of commission for a few weeks because of a particularly large and painful kidney stone. When I told my dear friend Jennifer Diehr who was recently on this podcast for the third time, she responded by texting me with “This too shall pass”. And yet we’re still READ MORE
Category: Gratitude
The Hardest Part About Having a Dog
I don’t own dogs. If anything they own me. My wife and I got our first dog from the Toronto Humane Society in the late 1990s while we were living in the area. From the beginning our little beagle / corgi / terrier mix was the queen of our home. About a year after we READ MORE
Two to Ponder – Wisdom From Adam Grant
Yesterday was Family Day here in Saskatchewan so we had the day off, and as of today I have lived in Canada longer than I lived in the U.S., which is where I was born and raised. We’re calling it my Canada Day and I’m spending it with my family. As such, this post will READ MORE
Learning From History
Back in December I wrote a post about the importance of learning about history, even the history that’s hard to hear about. Something happened since then that made me want to write a more personal post on the subject. Not long after my daughter was born I started looking into our family history. My dad READ MORE
The Way We Use Treadmills, and How We Make Others Use Them, is Killing Us
Several years ago I was at the gym and there was a woman on one of the treadmills. She was running fast and had the incline set quite steep. And she was clinging to the front of the treadmill to keep from flying off. If you’re working so hard at something that you have to READ MORE
Memory Triggers
From left to right my paternal grandmother, my mom, and my maternal grandmother The other day I was listening to a Motown playlist on Spotify and the Temptations My Girl started playing. I used to sing that to my daughter when she was a baby. I would hold her close while we slowly danced and READ MORE
I Have a Teenager
I have a teenager. This is a new thing. She’s the same person she was a couple of weeks ago, but now she’s a teenager. At the moment, I’m sitting in my wife and my bedroom, with the dogs keeping me company, listening to my teenager play Christmas carols on the piano during her lesson. READ MORE
Um, There’s a Fire
When I was in the sixth grade there was a big fire that came through the area. At the time there were a lot few houses in our little bedroom community outside of Los Angeles, and the land across from the high school was filled with brush. The fire started a few miles away as READ MORE
A Year of Yes
I mentioned in the podcast episode that went live yesterday that I’ve been listening to the audio book of Shonda Rhimes Year of Yes. If you somehow don’t know who she is, she’s the creator and lead writer of Grey’s Anatomy, How to Get Away With Murder, Scandal, and Bridgerton. She’s also the producer and READ MORE
Home Again
I’m back from my visit to California and have a few observations. Every time I heard a dog bark, I expected to hear a response from our dogs, but they weren’t with me. This was particularly strange for me given how little I’ve been away from them in the past couple of years. I went READ MORE
