Love. Love can be fleeting, love can be amazing, love can deeply hurt. It took me quite a few tries before I found “the right one”. Four times I thought I found “the one”, my true love, my soul mate. At 18 years old I met a young lady named Diane who took my heart and my breath away. Young love can be so exciting, and fleeting. We were together for a year when I put a ring on Read more
April 12, 2020 Easter Sunday. I told my daughter the Easter bunny wasn’t coming because of Coronavirus. What a jackass Dad move that was. Somehow it feels like everything is cancelled. It is a good thing my beautiful daughter is at her Moms today. The Easter bunny isn’t coming to Dad’s. This Sunday feels much like any other day of the week and I decide to try the dump trip again today. My neighbour jumps in his own truck and Read more
Calgary Flames 2004 Life at thirty seems like a lifetime ago. I owned a nice home in Calgary, had a successful business and many good friends. Each summer I would jump on my motorcycle and ride to BC. It is interesting to look back on those times and reflect on the person I was and who I would become. A blur is how it feels. I had season tickets to the Calgary Stampeders and then bought Flames tickets when they Read more
April 11, 2020 Last night I made the mistake of watching the news after a few drinks… I think watching the news is tough enough, not sure drinking is the best remedy. The math and the numbers have me confused; in BC we have 1410 cases of covid and 55 deaths out of a population of over 5 million. Inherently I know that the measures we have done are the reason it is so low, yet I can’t help but Read more
April 10, 2020 Feeling invigorated I grab my coffee and open up my laptop. I sit down to write and the words pour out of me. I have found my muse and it is due in part to tragedy. Like many times in history, we get creative in the face of adversity. I have found many people lately are turning to music and art as a release, an escape. Almost compelled I begin to write down my story. Shaking my Read more
Honored and inspired by the feedback I have gotten to my journal, I strive to find more connections and stay relevant in our quickly changing times. As quick as things have changed they seem to remain madly the same. My story continues to develop and I reflect on my youth. As a young man I had dreams of creating and writing, this was overtaken by basic life need; money and love. Engaged at nineteen for the first of five(!) times, Read more
April 9, 2020 More good news to break the day. Our esteemed leader tells us that we could be looking at summer before we flatten the curve, and not until a vaccine to return to normal, maybe a year to 18 months. Meanwhile here in Kelowna we have only heard of the 16 cases at Bylands Nursery. They don’t tell us how many cases are actually around us, how many people actually have it, because they can’t test everyone. Doctors Read more
April 8, 2020 Dreams, strange and haunting dreams plague my night; dreams of social distances and dreams of Calgary. I often dream about my original hometown. I spent thirty six years in the city by the beautiful foothills of the Rocky Mountains. I often say I escaped Calgary to live in the wonderful Okanagan Valley, but a piece of my heart still belongs to city on the Bow River. Flashes of my dreams stick in my head as I awake Read more
April 7, 2020 Each day is starting to meld together. I am working in the morning on the computer, in the yard in the afternoon. Today the lawn was ready for a haircut, so am I, but the only thing getting cut is the grass. My awesome teenager is headed back to her mom’s today and I have mixed feelings. Relief in the pressure being off to entertain her, educate and appease her. I feel sadness because I will miss Read more
April 6, 2020 Big White seems like a distant memory now, Only Three weeks since the amazing season we were having, was cut short. A virus that began in China in December has now invaded the world and changed everyone’s life. The exodus from the mountain was sudden and complete; today it feels a world away. I get up early and jump on my motor cycle to deliver some paperwork downtown. Another bonus of the shut down; traffic is light. Read more