Category: wandering & thinking

  • Groundhog

    One of my favourite films stars Bill Murray as a weatherman who, while visiting a small town to report on the festivities taking place to celebrate groundhog day finds himself trapped in a seemingly endless cycle of reliving the same day over and over and over again. He wakes up on the second of February

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  • Perspective is Everything

    As another year comes to an end (in the next few days) it’s hard to remember that just one year ago we were looking with all the hope in the world at 2021 as it approached and left behind a monumentally bad 2020 somewhere in the past. This year hasn’t quite been the surprise gut

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  • Don’t Take Participation for Granted

    You can read these words. You have access to knowledge unknown and unfathomable to any generation before you. You are online, connected, exploring big ideas and complex thoughts. Explain a valuable life lesson you learned in 2021. I restarted blogging at the beginning of 2021 after a fairly long absence from the sport. I put

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  • Across the Universe

    This afternoon I was driving through a snowstorm listening to a science radio show on the CBC talking about the launch of the new James Webb space telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope is a space telescope being jointly developed by NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency. It is planned to

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  • Level Up

    I don’t write about it much (or ever really) but I enjoy the odd video game in my downtime. When I need to relax or spend time with my daughter, the controllers come out and we play. When I don’t have the mental energy for a book or for writing, I flip on the PlayStation.

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