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Going home
Since I live less than thirty kilometers from where I grew up, I revisit the area every month or two. It’s always an unsettling feeling. For one thing, I can hardly walk a pace without some memory...
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Visiting my old elementary school
A couple of Sundays ago, I passed through the yard of my old elementary school. Contrary to what people usually say about a childhood locale, it didn’t seem small. Rather, it seemed mundane compared to...
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New Years with neither nostalgia nor resolutions
I’ve never seen an episode of “That Was the Week That Was,” the British comedy series from the early 1960s often referred to as “TW3.” However, I’ve read that each episode always started with a song...
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Technological nostalgia and I
The other day, I read that Kodak would no longer be producing analog film. The newspaper did its best to make the new an end of an era story, with people lamenting the end of a tradition. But I admit...
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Walking through West Vancouver on Christmas Day
Every Christmas, after the turkey and stuffing and yams and mashed potatoes and trifle, the other members of my surviving family settle down for a nap. While they are snoring, I go for a walk or a run....
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Hitching a ride
I spent several years of my university career hitchhiking to and from university For the first two years, I’d bus to work, then hitch from the campus to downtown Vancouver, or even home to the North...
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Tapdancing on the Moon
“We’re all a little older, the air’s a little colder, Feels like forty lifetimes since we walked upon the moon.” -OysterBand, “I Know It’s Mine” If you aren’t old enough to remember the first moon...
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My shadowy, non-geeky past
Most of my friends claim to have had a harrowing time at high school. They complain about being picked on by teachers, bullied by older students, hopeless at sports, and stressed by a combination of...
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Everything I know about ethics I learned from Robin Hood
The mother of a friend of mine once said that he had raised himself to be a knight. She didn’t take any credit for the fact – she simply observed it, which it made it the best compliment of a child by...
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