Dad – Hybrid Thoughts

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…

47 years

In a couple of weeks it will be 47 years since I proposed to Wendy and asked her if she would spend the rest of her life with me. I will be 69 towards the end of this year, my Dad died just short of his 72 birthday as that “line in the sand” has…

Add a bit more lighter fluid

We had a bbq in the past few days, and I heated up the propane powered BBQ to grill the burgers. It made me think about when we were kids and Dad would pull the BBQ if we were having a summer meal and maybe even eat outside. Dad however, did not have propane! The…