Much to everyone’s amazement, the little Claire Bear took to camping like her namesake, rooting the bushes for tasty morsels and hibernating until well past seven in the morning — and she put down roots in the wilderness as if she’d been born there. The kid, her dad is pleased to announce, is [...]

… or at least I was.
Sparkle and I loaded up the car and drove three hours south-west of Edmonton for a three night camping trip with my parents and the sibs. The weather could be categorized as variable: the first night was pouring rain and hail, the second windy, the third pleasant.
I caught a [...]

I’ve not allowed myself to become immersed in a video game for quite some time. I’ve not set aside an hour or two to just mindlessly playing. The shame is that now my temporary diverted interest it is becoming an argument for not buying new games, or worse, new systems.

I’ve not wandered on [...]

It’s the weekend of photos. Not only did we take over 250 photos at Stephen and Sibylle’s wedding last night, and not only did I get some crazy picture taking in during Friday evening’s thunder and lightning storm, and NOT ONLY am I off to the fringe in about 45 minutes to do my [...]

IMPORTED FROM OUR TRAVEL BLOG: Brad, Karin (and Ryan) Do Europe ‘06
Oh….. my…. yikes!
We’ve been quiet for a few days due to lack of Internet — and also the fact we’ve been gogogogogogoooooooing steady.
We left Berlin on Friday, driving. Karin navigated us onto the Autobahn, and after 6 hours in heavy traffic at about [...]

I really need to write this because there are some who will be expecting it and others who need to know, if only for the experience of rolling their eyes back into their heads.
We were in Jasper this weekend. Clarification: in Jasper, around Jasper, beside Jasper, the park, the town, the general sort of [...]