Family Day 2020

I never get to Family Day without recalling the Alberta Family Day that Philip fell off the side of a mountain. He foolishly tried to repel over a giant boulder, without his father’s knowledge, though he claims I pushed him. But of course, he has been known to tell a story or two! This year…

Do you ever wonder what you look like?

I don’t mean the title to suggest you have never looked in a mirror.  But have you ever wondered what you look like to others, how they might draw you? This is how I look to our eldest granddaughter Rachel.  She drew this over Christmas as part of my birthday card. She’ll never know how…

The importance of family

Much of my life I have lived far from some members of our family.  As a kid either living in the east or west most of our family lived in Ontario. We took the train or drove for visits but my folks were quite creative in how they communicated with our family. I remember the…