Adding some fun to your day

Okay, I admit it. I am a HUGE fan of Harry Potter and I am itching to see the next movie out in July and read the final novel …. In the interim, however, I’ll have to hang onto the knowledge that JK Rowling is currently in the process of writing that final book in…

It’s Friday evening and slaDE, Ed and myself are driving the lengthy distance to my father’s, looking to spend some quality time with my family, before I leave. It’ll be quite lovely, seeing my younger sister Aaron and spending some time just breathing in the fresh country air (some not so fresh 🙂 ). It’s…

It’s been an amazingly hectic few weeks (and yes, I will eventually get my vacation blog up-to-date WITH pictures, promise!) with our jam-packed (literally! Mom gifted slaDE with 8 jars of strawberry freshness) vacation back to Ontario, a family wedding and a full-on Stampede with fireworks every night to keep us bright-eyed and awake into…

It was a casual and cloudy drive back to Calgary. Thankfully uneventful, apart from our little detour into Banff. With time on our hands, we decided that this was as good a time as any to explore the world-renown Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel. This gorgeous old historic mountain retreat sits on the edge of the…

There’s only one thing that we can control in the human life, and that one thing is not our mind. It’s not a thought, it’s not our breath, it’s not our responses, it’s not our actions. It is the cultivation of personal awareness, the moment-to-moment awareness of who we are – in charge of our…