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Stories about our Lives

Musings about our life and other stories.

Stories about our Lives

Our Year Round Lifestyle Shift

Photos from life in Costa Rica: I caught these two kids squealing in happiness as they ran towards the ocean on Playa Hermosa at sunset in Uvita. After our seven week trip to Costa Rica earlier this year, Yim…

Stories about our Lives

Looking Back at 2025

2025 started with a spectacular three week visit to Madeira. We visited because we wanted to experience the famous Levada hiking trails we had read so much about and get away from the cold Collingwood weather in January. Somewhere…

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Strength Training Progress

What started as a necessity six years ago (the Doctors told me I needed to lose some weight for surgery, so I started to run five days a week), has become a lifestyle. Once I lost the first 20…

Stories about our Lives

2024 in Review

2024 was another busy year for us and a lot of fun… In the early part of the year, we stayed around home and spent time researching and planning our trip to Italy with our friends, Dorothy and Mark,…

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Creative Background

In my final year in high school, I won accolades for my videography work during our grade 11 Art Project and ended the year with one of the top marks in the creative classes I attended in the province.…

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Grateful for our life

I’ve come to a point in our lives where I recognize that I am grateful for every day. It’s become important to me at this stage to recognize our life and live in the moment… In a world that…

Stories about our Lives

The Three Buddhism Beliefs

During a dinner with friends recently, Yim and I mentioned that we mostly aligned with Buddhism as a philosophy.   I had mentioned that I liked that Buddhists look within themselves for truth and understanding. That I could understand the…