Musings about life…
I hold an active Master Scuba Diver Trainer’s Certificate. I have logged over 3000 dives in my lifetime. In 1978, I was lucky enough to travel to Isla Mujeres off the coast of Cancun to do some snorkelling for…
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The Distillery District is a commercial and residential district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, east of downtown, which is made up of numerous cafés, restaurants, and shops housed within incredible heritage buildings of the former Gooderham and Worts Distillery. At…
So this retirement thing is finally kicking in. It’s been a bit of a bumpy road due to having to fight off the cancer I was diagnosed with at 63 but so far, after surgery, radiation and two years…
The First Step in Creating a New Life is to Get Rid of Everything you Don’t Want. Long before my cancer diagnosis, I worked to declutter my part of our lives. It’s important to me emotionally. It makes me…
I’ve struggled with sharing this for quite a while now but feel sharing it may be cathartic for me. I feel like I’ve been hiding it from most of my friends so here goes… In May of 2019, Yim…
Memorial to my sister, Donna. California, 2013. — Hello everyone. My name is Steve Roper. Donna was my little sister. And I was lucky enough to know her longer than anyone else here… I am here today to thank…
We had told the same story 500 times by now… How had we ended up running a five star resort in Belize was always the question. So one night, I winked at Yim and started off down the plot…
We liked to watch the sun rise. I used to get up and stand by the Ocean’s Edge and watch the day break with a nice pink glow over the horizon. This one morning, Yim decided she would come…
We finally arrived in Maya Beach after our 17 day road trip from Victoria. It was going to be the first night we could stay in our little house by the beach and there it was, with its roof…
Our houses were designed as a box with a top basically. A 24 foot by 24 foot square box which was to be delivered to the property on the back of a flatbed truck and hauled through the Maya…
