Category: Do

I hope you aren’t too full from your meal, or on your way to some fine dining right now. You can probably guess from the title what this is about. Trust your instinct. Look, I’m not waking up every day thinking of ways to upset people’s appetites. But these are parts of babies’ lives, hence…

Almost 20 years ago (wow, has it been that long already?), I faced one of the toughest decisions in my life… picking a major. I, a teenager without any benefits of experience, prescience, or meaningful level of critical thinking, had to make a decision that would in many ways dictate the course of my life….

Oh… aren’t babies always full of surprises? The good ones, the bad ones, and the smelly ones. I mean, they’ve got to do at least some things to keep us on our toes, right? Otherwise, parenting would just be too easy. My daughter has also been hard at work sprinkling delightful surprises in our lives…

By the time my daughter was born, both she and my wife had been through the ordeal of 3-day-long labor. Now, anything that takes 3 days pretty much has “exhaustion” written all over it, let alone labor. While it broke my heart to see my wife endure the agony, tedium, and frustration, I forgot to…

The Greater Vancouver Area is well-known for its bountiful supply of hiking trails. If you attempt one per week, it will literally take years to complete all of them. The most famous among those is arguably the Grouse Grind. The name says it all. It’s a grind so make no mistake about it. Though the…