Author Archives: Chris

Wow, does that child love decorating the Christmas tree. He was going full tilt at it the moment the tree came into the house, and there was no slowing him down. When we tried to suggest that we wait for the tree to settle in and unfurl (it’s a real tree that had been bundledContinue reading “There’s a Crazy Christmas Elf in my house!”

It’s like the ice cream flavour you hate but end up eating when you don’t have any other option. You know you don’t like the flavour, and it will not sit well, but you keep licking anyway. That failure flavour is ‘self-inflicted and deliberate’.  Yesterday, I pitched a little fit at the world around meContinue reading “The Many Flavours of failure”

We’re deep under about 105 cm of snow here (41 inches for anyone not rolling with the metric system, half a fathom for the sailors in the crowd). The joking around about the snowpocalypse or snowmageddon loses some of the hilarity by day 3. Things look like they’re calming down now, but good grief thereContinue reading “That is a lot of snow”