Last year my mother passed away at 84 years. She was ready to go and had lived a full life. Knowing this however, did nothing to lessen my grief. My father died 31 years previously, when I was 23. It was a dark time for me and it took me many years to come to […]

A couple of weeks ago, I made a quick trip out to Kelowna to visit my son who is in school there. It wasn’t a particularly relaxing 4 days… 12 hours of driving there and back, lots of running around the city buying things for his new home, late nights visiting with friends and catching […]