Wow, so far winter has not arrived in Kingston. I thought this was supposed to be the coldest part of the year? It is 4 degrees celcius today. What gives? But I digress. A big part of mindfulness is arrived at via meditation. Hmmm. So I am attempting to learn to meditate. Easy right? Nope. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »2 weeks of vacation – Kingston style
I needed two weeks to recover from numbness in my fingers from shitty ergonomics at my workstation. I also needed sleep. Not one or two nights but two weeks worth. Stomach issues are improving. I needed the opportunity to take stock. Today will mark 20 consecutive days that I have either rowed or run. I [...]
Read the rest of this entry »What goes around comes around
Moammar Gadhafi choose his actions and thought he’d get away with them. And he did. For a long time. Who wouldn’t love to have as many years as he did. Some of us who live deserve death, some of us who die deserve life. Now in the media, questions are being raised about the manner [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Ever have “one of those days”
Where events just seem to conspire against you? Where things come to a head at exactly the wrong time. That is today. That has been this week, this weekend. Something has to give. Just a bit so I can catch my breath. Sometimes I feel like I need no sleep. Like right now. I’m tired [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Getting in shape for BJJ
Managing my whole life is a tricky business. I always seem to have a major fire burning and while I am fighting that fire, everything else is neglected. I really enjoy BJJ and in order to progress I need to attend class and I need to stay healthy. I also need to free up the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Fuel prices, global warming, gas guzzlers and koolaid
Travel has its high and low points. One of the low points are the unfortunate comparisons I find I am drawing between the way we get around the streets where we live here versus in Europe. In Europe we noticed that all the cars are small. No Hummers, Escalades, or F250 club cabs. The vehicles [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Kingston, Ontario is a great place to live
Really? Well…Yes. I actually targeted Kingston years ago as one of the better spots to live in Canada for a number of reasons: It’s not too big. Easy to navigate, little traffic and low crime. It is not too small. All the services are here and Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa are not that far away. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Something we couldn’t have thought up ourselves
Liam, Aidan, Annette and I just got back from a 16 day trip to Roma, Pompeii, Paris and Venezia. Annette did a side trip to visit her family in Poland. The experience was more than worth the cost. So much of what we saw was unexpected. From the dominance of Smart cara in Roma to [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Putting down roots
We have moved around…A LOT. But we have now been here in Kingston for longer than anywhere else and we like this town. The river is just down the path behind our house. There’s a place where the dogs can swim. The city is just across the bay. We can see the Canada day fireworks [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Grace
“Grace” has numerous theological definitions. My definition is of a more secular nature. “Grace is an unearned gift of momentary happiness that we experience with our family or friends” This was a pretty rough weekend. There were times though, where it occurred to me that I am very, very blessed to have Liam, Aidan and [...]
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