Mom or Dad shot this photo of flowers set against glorious early 1970s wallpaper and drapes in our Flin Flon home. We had that end table ...

Here are two more partially-restored slides from the collection of my aunt and uncle. I quite like the graphic design of the signs, par...

Most of the family slides I've been scanning over the last couple of years are in pretty good shape considering their age, but a few ...

At least, that's how I feel after watching All Is Lost, Robert Redford's one-man show about disaster on the high seas. That being s...

Less than a year ago, Sylvia and I enjoyed a boat trip off the coast of Costa Rica. This remains my favourite photo from that trip, thoug...

You know the fight music I mean . 

Today is National Aboriginal Day in Canada, but despite growing up in northern Manitoba I feel woefully unqualified to speak to the comp...

I've been asked more than once to write more about music; my standard response is to say that I don't write about it because I don...

I'm on call this week, which means the Woods family will be celebrating Father's Day next Sunday. In the meantime, here's a...

There were too many metaphors for time But not enough time to choose the best And so the poet flailed and sweated Ripped the clock from...

Another Jungian personality test, another confirmation that yes, I'm an introvert. I could have saved you the trouble...

Way back in 2007, I helped out at a town hall on affordable child care - or rather, the lack of same in Alberta. Weslyn Mather, an Albert...

I ran across this video on Boing Boing tonight. Boing Boing contributor Ethan Gilsdorf used a Super 8 movie camera to shoot a couple of m...

As noted back in 2012 , keeping my map of travel conquests up to date is a tricky business, and this map reflects further refinements to ...

This is the first listed on YouTube's Infochammel channel. It was put up four years ago, and since then it's garnered a little ove...

Nine years ago, Sean wound up with a salt shaker on his head. I don't remember if he successfully punched it off. 

10 years ago I was still using my first cellular phone, which I believe I purchased in 2002 and kept for several years after I married ...

Somewhere between Edmonton and Flin Flon our old brown station wagon chewed up the kilometres one by one, headlights carving our way throug...

Somewhere on the Hanson Lake Road, 2006. 

Tonight our ATCO Electric/ATCO Power trivia team earned 77 points to earn gold medals at the 2016 Corporate Challenge Team Trivia event....

Yesterday Sylvia and I took some stuff to the dump. Along with an old bar fridge, a trio of ancient computers, and a few bits of scrap me...