This coming Monday (February 17) is Family Day in Ontario, Canada. A statutory holiday, it was originally created to give families important time with each other. Ontario isn’t the only province in Canada to celebrate Family Day – Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia also celebrate it. For me, it’s another reason I’ve come to […]
Life
The Loneliness of Downsizing and Starting Over
One of the things I don’t think gets spoken about often enough is the loneliness that can be felt when downsizing and starting over. This doesn’t necessarily need to be the kind of loneliness that you’re completely off-grid, or you have no friends, or you’ve left family and all you know behind. Although reading that […]
On Getting Used to the Local Way of Life
It’s funny the changes that happen when you make a move from the city to a small town. Some, you immediately expect – less shops, less restaurants, less traffic. Depending on your previous like or dislike of these things, these changes can be minimal (or big). Then there’s the school routine. Whereas it used to […]
Those Random Memories (Or How We Craft a Life)
It’s funny how we start to accept the journey of getting older as we actually take it. When I was 17, the last thing I could ever envision was what I’d be doing 30+ years from then. Instead, all I cared about was being old enough to go to a bar, and find girls once […]
Being In The Physical, and Turning Memories Into Moments
In the spring of 2018, I returned to my birth country, Scotland, for a joint whisky tasting and scenic tour.. I took the trip with my good friend, Sam Fiorella, who had wanted to do this trip for a few years (he was meant to do it for his 50th birthday). Given my own 50th happened […]