No one ever taught me how to fish. And to say, “I know what I’m doing” with a fishing rod in my hand these days would be pushing it.
We crave the structure, meaning, and community that marking passages and occasions through ceremony and ritual gives us
When I suggested to everyone at our "mini-reunion" that, at this age, reconnecting with our respective pasts felt important, everyone nodded in eager agreement.
Divorce doesn't have to be ugly. Not only did my ex and I move on, but neither of us ever weaponized our daughter.
Depending on where I lived, these two boxes of letters sat on my bookcase, in a drawer, or maybe in a basement cubbyhole.
“Wanna come out and play?” When you’re a kid, making friends can sometimes be that easy. Not for every kid, to be sure, but for many. But for those of us in our “last quarter?” Not so much.
In late 2020, I bought a recreational pump toilet for $8,500. To sweeten the deal, the seller also threw in a 22’ sterndrive boat named Paradise Ain’t Cheap.
My rule was always that they had to be old enough to get my jokes, such as they were.
Watching King Charles deliver the Throne Speech in Canada’s Parliament the other day reminded me of a brief moment in university when I thought I might want to be Prime Minister of this vast, complex, and sometimes ungovernable land.
For a million reasons, we love it here in New Brunswick. But what we’ve learned about living in a bilingual province has been very telling, particularly on the cultural side.
