This is a collection of my thoughts, questions, ideas and what I have seen. These are my opinions and experiences. In 2017 I experienced a head injury that has given me concussion like symptoms, one is memory loss, that is one of the drivers for this blog, to record what I may not remember later. Your feedback and open discussion is always welcome. Haters will always be mocked. Thank you to Lisa for your editing. Illustrations by Sydnee.
We have been blessed with two amazing children. Our son now twenty, we adopted and he came to us when he was three days old. Our daughter we gave birth to four and a half years later, she will be sixteen this year. We couldn’t be happier with how things have worked out for us... Continue Reading →
Acknowledging and labeling our identity is a hot topic today. Can you imagine a time when colour, religion and pronouns are no longer used as labels to identify people. A time when the term “ I came out “ is only found in the history books. A time when parades celebrate unity and not differences.... Continue Reading →
Trailer Park Kids As a family we moved a lot, in fact we lived in six small towns before I was ten. We then moved to the big city of Winnipeg and even being there didn’t allow us to grow roots that took. We lived in four more homes in different neighbourhoods from grade four... Continue Reading →
Sports Fans When does it start, this life long commitment to the sports world, as kids I guess for most of us. We are drawn in by our friends and family, we start cheering for the Home town team and then latch on to that one player. That player that has all the right moves,... Continue Reading →
Penny This is one of those tales that makes you go hmmmmm. For this story it is important to know that we waited a long time for our first child. We tried to start our family and for many years we had no luck. Then we were blessed with our son Bailey that we adopted... Continue Reading →
I awaken in the middle of the night barely aware that my hand is already on it moving back and forth. Slowly, hardly noticing the pressure but starting to feel the pleasure starting to build. My hand starts to move a little faster, I know I should stop, already I’m reaching that point where I... Continue Reading →
Basketball Parents Our family has been involved in the girls basketball organizations in our area since our daughter was nine, she is now fifteen. She has played in as many as three different leagues in a season and two seasons a year since she started. She played on several different teams for different coaches. This... Continue Reading →
“Congratulations to all the teenage kids who organized the marches across the USA on Saturday, raised money for flights, buses, television crews, made signs exceeding their vocabulary and arranged for hundreds of thousands of hotels, that's pretty impressive for a bunch of kids”, “media puppets” These are quotes from Facebook that refer to the thousands... Continue Reading →
