Recently I was asked why I love to read and write so much. I guess the first person to blame would be my mother. She read to me from the moment I could sit still for more than five minutes and listen. It wasn’t long before my demands for “Just one more story….Pleasssse” were the…
Over the years I’ve been fortunate enough, or unfortunate, depending on how you look at it, to have traveled to every province and territory in Canada except the Yukon. I really want to go there some day though. I’ve been in every US state except Alaska and Hawaii. Those are still on my bucket list…
Most of those who know me today think of me as a truck driver, and indeed I have made most of my living and supported my family over the years by driving trucks from coast to coast in the US and Canada for most of the past 43 years. From the time when I was…
When you start a blog based on a life (64 years and counting) it leaves plenty of topics to write about. With Christmas only 12 days away I thought I would recall the Christmas Santa didn’t come to our house. We had just moved near Gladstone Manitoba from Alberta in November, I think the year was…
At one time I had this blog working pretty smoothly. I’d added plenty of posts over the past year, and then I decided to make some changes with my hosting account. Of course as usual I neglected to back it up because naturally nothing bad would ever happen to me, right? Wrong. I lost it all…
