Marching to Carmel
Reblogged from Surprised by Joy: We all have arguments with others, but are we on a ‘March to Carmel’ seeking to exact vengeance for wrongs and trespasses? In The Peacegiver by James Ferrell the main...
View ArticleWhat Happens When You Leave Your Kids with a High School Friend
This is too priceless not to share. It`s the email we got the first day away in Mexico: Hi J & M, Today has gone swimmingly. 830 -900 Wakeup & Lego 900 Brekky of scrabbled eggs with peppers and...
View ArticleThis One’s For You, Amanda
This morning, Canada woke up to news of the suicide of a young girl named Amanda. But the real question is when will people wake up to the real problem of bullying in schools? Amanda’s Story As I...
View ArticleMagpies
Wintertime is upon us once again. Just the other day, huddled under the pines out the gym window, I saw tiny birds hopping around, out of the cold wind. Since then, most of the birds seem to have left,...
View ArticleThe Portrait of a Writer (1)
Reblogged from Cristian Mihai: I began writing in my most vulnerable years. I was dumb and arrogant, as most teenagers seem to be, and I did my best to pour greatness into every sentence I wrote. But...
View Article5 Things You Didn’t Know About Me
I just finished telling the admin assistant at my work that it’s a good thing I verbalize every single thought that comes into my head. That’s a little tongue in cheek, but mostly true, so when my...
View ArticleWhere We End Up
12 year old me was a skinny kid with hair that was much too big for his head. I don’t have the best memory, but I recall wearing black stonewashed jeans that even at the time I knew weren’t...
View ArticleChristmas Past and Present
Every since I moved away from my home town, we’ve had the same discussion surrounding Christmas. It’s the “Do we go back from Christmas?” discussion. It drives me crazy. When I was a kid, most of the...
View ArticleA Few Days Until Christmas
Merry Christmas, everyone! I haven’t posted in a while, again. Our house is an incredible mess, but it’s a happy kind of mess, with baked products and the components for several handmade gifts...
View ArticleDid a year really go by?
Oh my, how embarrassing! Now I’ve really gone and done it! Apparently I haven’t posted anything for a year! What’s doubly mortifying is that I went to log into my own blog, and I went to the wrong...
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