Stories about our Lives

It was my 71st birthday today. We woke up slowly, made coffee and Yim gave me a cute birthday card and three books I have been wanting to read. Then I went on a 12 km run followed by…

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 and I…

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…

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…

I’ve spent a lot of time over the last six years re-thinking what’s really important to me and the life I share with Yim. If there was one thing a diagnosis of cancer provided me with, it was the…

I thought that a post featuring some chronological photos of the past seventy years would be a fun thing to look back at. I was born in NDG in Montreal on June 27, 1955 and my French Canadian Mother…

Yim and I met at a party in Montreal, which was being held by mutual friends, in an old warehouse along the Lachine Canal in March of 1998. For those of you who don’t already know, it was a…

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,…

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.…

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…