Sunday Snippet: Jack Layton
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” You may not agree with some...
View ArticleSunday Snippet: Don Marquis (1878-1937)
“An idea isn’t responsible for the people who believe in it.” Understandably, we tend to associate ideas with the people who promote them. For example, we might look at the Christian Crusades during...
View ArticleSunday Snippet: John Oliver
“The reason a British person has to do that is that we’re raised in a rigid class system where we have all hope beaten out of us. And your [American] optimism is overwhelmingly positive, except when...
View ArticleVlog #37: Choosing the Best Hotel for Your Trip
I love to travel, despite all the challenges and frustrations that accompany it, and one of the bigger decisions that you need to make when planning a trip is figuring out where you are going to stay....
View ArticleOn Starting Preschool and Afternoon Naps
It feels like only yesterday that I was welcoming her into my arms and yet I will suddenly have a preschooler on my hands in just a few short weeks. How did this happen? Every time that we thought we...
View ArticleBut How Do You Find the Time?
Life isn’t fair. The world is filled with all sorts of inequalities. Some people win the genetic lottery, exuding an unparalleled level of natural beauty that aligns with the prevailing standards of...
View ArticleSunday Snippet: Jim Carrey – I Needed Color
“What you do in life chooses you. You can choose not to do it. You can choose to try to do something safer. Your vocation chooses you.” As children (and even as adults), we are oftentimes offered...
View ArticleVlog #38: Fancy Cheap McDonald’s Hamburgers
If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, if you’ve been following me on Instagram, then you’ll know that the best way to my heart is through my stomach. I like food. I like eating out....
View ArticleThe Following May Contain Coarse Language
I was at McDonald’s (why do so many of my stories start this way?), thinking that I’d be able to enjoy my iced coffee in relative peace. Within a couple minutes of me sitting down, I was suddenly...
View ArticleHokkaido Ramen Santouka, West Broadway
Equating excellent Japanese ramen to instant cup noodles is like drawing a parallel between handmade Italian pasta and Chef Boyardee. There’s just no comparison. Now, don’t get me wrong. There’s a...
View ArticleSunday Snippet: Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a...
View ArticleVlog #39: Perspective, Context, and the One Percent
Have you ever seen that meme where there are two people standing on either side of a number of the ground? One of them says it’s a 6 and the other says it’s a 9 and the lesson we’re supposed to take...
View ArticleWhat’s Up Wednesdays: It’s Chris Jericho!
I last shared a collection of blog posts from around the web four weeks ago and somehow another month has come and gone. Can you believe it? As the kids get ready to go back to school (if they haven’t...
View ArticleGrammar 101: Eclipse, Ellipse, Ellipsis
Unless you’ve been living under a rock — and even if you have, there’s probably still some pretty decent Wi-Fi down there — you probably got bombarded by all the total solar eclipse madness last week....
View ArticleSunday Snippet: Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. On some subconscious level, we all place a lot of trust in perceived...
View ArticleVlog #40: PNE Day with the Toddler
I’ve been going to the PNE (Pacific National Exhibition) for as long as I can remember. The Fair at the PNE has changed a lot over the years, but there are some things that have always stayed the...
View ArticleI’m Not Your Buddy, Pal!
Phil Dunphy is my spirit animal. As delusional as it may sound, I’d like to think that I have a lot in common with this fictional father. We both run our own businesses. We revel in bad puns and...
View ArticleHow I Wasted My Money in College
I’d like to think that I’ve always been pretty responsible with my money. It’s not that I’m cheap; it’s that I am strategically frugal and I’ve always been this way. If there’s a coupon to be used or...
View ArticleSunday Snippet: Aziz Ansari
I am the first generation in my family that was born in America. Anybody else first-generation people? Yeah? Clap, yeah? Yeah! Pretty amazing thing our parents did, right? They came to this country....
View ArticleVlog #41: Rainy Vancouver Returns
Aside from astronomical real estate prices, the rainy weather is perhaps one of the most common complaints about Vancouver. After our recent heat wave and with all the forest fires in the area,...
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