Another year full of challenges, but my daughter survived.
A personal reflection on finding unexpected love and joy after embracing solitude, and the liberating effects of letting go of social media and embracing real connections.
Today is Bell Let's Talk Day, a day focused on mental health awareness. For the past few years, I have been using it to talk about a theme for the next year.
Another challenging year, but coming out stronger than in the past.
Today is Bell Let’s Talk Day, and like last year, I want to use it to help prepare myself for what is to come this year. I do that by coming up with a theme to follow for the year.
Prime writing hours, as @SheaSerrano would say. It always feels good to get something new down and scheduled to post.
'Last of Us' is a very promising series after the first two episodes were aired on HBO. Something new I learned today was that it was filmed primarily in Alberta. Filming Locations has compiled all the locations with before/after photos.
Very cool.
Short Reel on Instagram since I'm not on TikTok.
Coffee is from Bean Scene in Kelowna.
The incredible Norman Lykes House is up for sale in Phoenix, AZ. It is the last home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It will set you back around $9 million USD.
via Cup of Coffee (by Craig Calcaterra) Substack
Experimenting with cross-posting from my blog to micro.blog to Twitter and Mastodon. It looks like a success! Only took me... too long to sort it out.
Hat tip to @chrishannah with his blog post which showed me the way in making this work for a Ghost-hosted blog.
The latest mix from Melfunction, a local DJ in Kelowna is fantastic.
I ended last year’s post writing about Kylie’s new found independence: walking around downtown or the mall without me right beside her, talking more with her friends in her room than with me, and so forth. This past year, that independence has really taken off.
A reflection on my birthday about another difficult year, plus book and music recommendations for the winter.
