A couple of years ago, my design firm worked for a client who was building luxury Sprinter Van conversions. During the creative process, I...

Travel by train is old-world, slow-living stuff and evokes all the Golden Age of Travel vibes that I'm always drawn to. I haven't th...

My goodness, it's been a few years. A few things have happened that have taken this away from being an expat blog. It's been 10 year...

After Thanksgiving's big hurrah, Nancy, Jessica, and I packed up our cars and drove down the coast for a Sunday-Wednesday escape. It was...

To me, one of life's greatest pleasures in that moment of a house brimming with energy, laughter, clinking glasses. That moment when a p...

It's the key ingredient of a Canadian kid's Summer if you live in the Eastern provinces with lots of lakes. Having grown up in cotta...

Do we, or don't we?   the parent party committee mused over Zoom. The gloomy chart from the Country showed the COVID levels in the waste...

It's May 1st, the birds are singing and it's not terribly hot out so I've been gardening while Joel is fishing with the boys. A ...

Rain rain rain! We've had two or three of these atmospheric rivers come through so far. We usually get these in late December or January...

 The Summer began with this burst of optimism as vaccination rates soared into the 90%s here. A few close friends we've only seen for so...