“Reality tells you what you can’t do.” — Rick Rubin on HBO’s The Shop: Uninterrupted, Season 2, Episode 4 It’s the end of a decade, and I can’t help but reflect on where I am now versus where I was back in December 2009. This entire decade, pretty much, has been the balancing […]
Okay—before we get into the 14th annual CaribbeanTales International Film Festival, I’d like to go on the record with this: Rattlesnakes may quite possibly be the best movie you’ll watch in 2019. Hands down. It’s the kind of movie one can’t quite do justice unless it’s seen—to talk about the synopsis alone […]
“I’m not even trying to win—I just want to get by without struggling too much.” — VV As the great Marie Kondo put it, if something doesn’t bring you joy, then you shouldn’t keep it in your life… and I think that’s how I’m finally feeling about blogging. Now. I’m not […]
Today I’m thirty-six. I’m thirty-six, and I blog in a world that doesn’t read blogs anymore. And who can blame it? The written word only does so well at telling a story, with podcasts, videos and photos doing a far better job of filling the details between the lines than we […]
A few Sundays back, Simon Guillebaud visited our church preaching the message of “radical grace”. You can listen to his sermon if you want to know more, but it breaks down to this—just how far are you willing to go to do what Jesus asked us to do and […]
As a Dadfluencer who’s worked hard to tell a fatherhood story that stands on its own, Father’s Day is a time of year where a lot of people reach out to see what a Dad like me would like to see when I wake up Sunday morning. Now […]
A system outage is one thing when you’re trying to binge a series or catch up on the latest episode. But when it makes you miss out on a moment in Canadian history because their infrastructure can’t keep up? That, my friends, as they say, is some bullshit. The @Raptors didn't make […]
People often forget about Father’s Day. You know—that day between Mother’s Day and summer where we celebrate dads with their ceremonial dress shirts and ties. Well… not anymore. See—Father’s Day doesn’t have to fall short in the effort department. It doesn’t need to be so routine or predictable. […]
So for anyone who doesn’t know it already, I’m one of the eleven digital ambassadors for Children’s Mental Health Ontario, doing what we can to shed light on children’s mental health in our province and all the stories that come with it. I’ve been at it for a little […]
Children’s mental health’s about more than just the stats. The People Behind the Numbers — Canada’s Children’s Mental Health Stories While we do talk about mental health now more than ever, with many of us, the conversation goes as far as sharing a post once a year and calling it […]