Category Family
Waiting For A Plane VI – Overbooked
I was traveling for a couple of weeks last month. I spent a lot of time in airports. In each one I had time on my hands. As a result I wrote at least one post in each of the airports, which am posting from time to time, interspersed with some other thoughts. They were […]
Sea of Tulips II
It was family time Sunday and we decided to brave the crowds and see the tulips. The plan was to park far away from the action and walk to Dow’s Lake, pretty much the epicentre of the annual Canadian Tulip Festival. It worked. I think Sunday was probably the busiest day of Tulipfest. The weather […]
March For Life III – The Protest
If I didn’t have experience in the matter I would have thought the media was just trying to be fair, to provide some balance. That I have found is highly unlikely when it comes to the emotionally charged issue of abortion. There were thousands of people on Ottawa’s Parliament Hill Thursday as the pro-life movement […]
March For Life II – The 2015 Event
I dropped by the lawn of Parliament Hill very briefly Thursday afternoon to check out part of the 2015 March For Life. I have some thoughts on the subject that i am going to share in a couple of subsequent posts, but for today I thought I would let the pictures do the talking. […]
What Is A Platonic Solid?
There is a television game show called “Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?” I’ve always felt I was, so I have never bothered to watch it. My niece turned 14 last weekend, so naturally there was a family gathering. When our family get together talk invariably turns to school, and she was asked what […]
Refugees I – The Flight Out
Twenty-five years ago today I became a refugee. Technically I suppose I still am one. We’ve never gone back. In April 1990 we were living in Monrovia, capital of Liberia (West Africa if you need to find it on a map). A civil war had started on Christmas Eve. Government troops seemed mostly ineffective, and […]
Cash Cow or Cash Cat?
My wife tore up the letter from the City of Ottawa, or I would have posted it here. It seems Marshall’s license is due for renewal. If you read this blog regularly you know that Marshall was our cat, who died last month. The city knows we have a cat because the Ottawa Humane Society […]
A Walk In The Woods
Sunday was a beautiful Spring day, so instead of going home right after church we went for a walk. Ottawa is blessed with an abundance of urban forest. I looked it up and though the numbers seemed a little fluid, it seems the city has about 40,000 hectares of forest and parkland. That number seemed […]
Warped in Calgary
I was telling this story recently at a family gathering, and my brother, who had not heard it, said I should do a post about it. It took a long time to tell, complete with hand gestures. Here’s the short version, you’ll have to imagine my gesticulation while you read. In 2006, on a family […]
Vet Bills
This was going to be yesterday’s post, but then Marshall took a turn for the worse. It was written between vet visits, before I knew that his treatment was going to cost a couple of thousand dollars. The sign in the photo I snapped at 2 a.m. Monday says it all: “Financing Available Here.” If […]
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