Dad at 95

We were away when Dad’s birth date when zooming by. I was walking along the street in downtown Calgary, the city I was born in, thinking about Dad at 95. What would that have been like. A compassionate man who loved his family deeply I think would have been more compassionate, more loving. That’s my…

7 or 49 months?

Have you heard that 1 year of a human’s life is equal to 7 years of a dog’s life? Well Nugget is 7 months old today. He’s lost all his baby teeth and been neutered. He’s trained and knows to let us know when he needs to go out. He walks well on a leash,…

Happy birthday

Today is Wendy’s birthday. We met when we were 20 and were both trying to get started in the world, working jobs that didn’t pay all that much. Wendy still lived at home and I was boarding with friends. To say we were living on a shoestring is not an exaggeration. We dated for 6…