Mom and Dad won a Communities in Bloom award for their yard in 2009. They earned it.   

A few years back Aunt Jean and Uncle John were in Leduc. Here, we see Aunt Jean pretending to drink from the iron ladle that goes with her d...

A friend of mine came back to work today after the recent loss of her mother, and we chatted for a bit before I realized that today is July ...

If Dad hadn't passed away in 2018, I have no doubt that we would have been BBQing yesterday or today. I wish we were. Rest peacefully, D...

Sometime in the mid-1970s, we travelled from Leaf Rapids to Thompson to buy an electronic organ. Mom or Dad shot a Polaroid of us playing wi...

Yesterday Sylvia and I drove to Mom and Dad's place one last time so that she could have a final look. The place felt empty, and so did ...

Today, Sean and I finished emptying out Mom and Dad's house. In a few days the new owners will take possession.  It's a bittersweet ...

At the moment I write this, Amazon Prime is streaming all six seasons of SCTV, AKA Second City Television, the sketch comedy show that arose...

When we got together to work on some estate stuff this morning, Sean presented me with an early birthday present: a grab bag of carefully cr...

Here's all that remains of the Kenner Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back toys I owned in Leduc. I once had a Boba Fett, a 2-1B medical ...

In 2014, we went back to Flin Flon and shot a photo of our old house.  A few years ago, not long after Dad died, I asked Mom if she remember...

Sean and I drove out to Leduc today to check in on Mom and Dad's house again and to continue wrapping up Mom and Dad's affairs. On t...

Mom was in the habit of giving Sean and me cash for expenses incurred while helping her. We protested, but she was persistent.  Some of that...

Just after 11 this morning, Sean, Sylvia and I interred Mom and Dad's mortal remains in a very nice spot in Leduc's beautiful cemete...

 

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.   

While driving from Leduc to Edmonton on Saturday night, YouTube music's algorhytim slid "This One" through my speakers. To the...

This afternoon, Mom and I were driving down 46 Avenue in Leduc when we spotted a wizard. We were driving quite slowly because there was a li...

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