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Maybe It’s Cold Outside?
It’s Sunday Runday, and I’m going to stay in and ride the stationary bike. I woke up and looked at the temperature as I was letting the dog out at 6am. It was twenty degrees below zero with a brisk wind. Also, it snowed. Snowed lightly covering up the layer of glassy ice covering a
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Comics: Camping with Kids
When my daughter was younger I wrote, illustrated and shared an online web comic about fatherhood. It documented some of the quirky things we did and used some of the funny things she said as the heartbeat of the humour. Whatever humour I managed to inject into these little stories usually came from a blend of “kids
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Recipe: Cast Iron Campfire Waffles
Even far from an electrical socket, when I wake up in the woods I still have a few morning rituals. I need my hot cup of coffee brewed in one of a variety of ways: steeped, perked, or filtered. I usually try to eat a piece of fruit to start my day off right. And
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Gear: Tilley H5 Hemp Hat
This week in my Thursday Tuck & Tech post (where I’m making an inventory of the gear I use or would like to add to my collection) I thought I’d write about one of my favourite hats. Way back in 1993 I was a boy scout. I was one of twelve thousand kids who attended the 8th
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squall
as the door clicked shutmy headlamp broadcast a stark beamslicing a path through the winter dark as I took my first stepsmy watch reached skyward for a signaltracking my pace across the icy walks as I started to runmy face caught the sudden rush of windsensing the winter air stirring ahead in the park as