Sense of Purpose

When I was young, I read a series of books which consisted of adventure stories wherein the reader would periodically arrive at a literary c...

As I have described previously, in March I came away from a conference excited and energetic about working with a friend of mine on politica...

People sometimes talk about their "first car" - it is for example often one of the choices for identity verification on online ban...

During our conversation on Thursday, my therapist WC introduced me to yet another particularly poignant illustration, this one about the fra...

It is with delight that I report here the Cinderella story that was my ice hockey team's victory last evening in the one-game final matc...

One of the largest changes I have seen in myself as I struggle to complete the transformation from being focussed on myself to conducting my...

A few weeks ago a friend of mine with whom I play pickup ice hockey with once a week invited me to participate with his Saturday team in a h...

I attended a conference this weekend for front-end developers. It  would be difficult to overstate how dissimilar the audience, not to menti...

Following a fabulous weekend at a political conference, I met with S. on Saturday for one more, non-political, night in the nation's cap...

This weekend I traveled to our capital city for a conservative political conference. This was my second consecutive year attending the natio...

My friend PL set up a rink in his back yard this winter and I went to his house on Saturday night with SR for an inaugural skating party, wh...

For many years I struggled with Christmas: when I was a cynic, I had a simple, dismissive response to it. when I was a small child, I loved ...

On the Monday before Christmas, we were invited to my friend P's to join P, P, L and J to watch The Ice Storm, which was as fantastic as...

For me, Christmas, and its close cousin New Year's Eve, are inextricably tied, and in a good year overshadowed by, my birthday, which fa...

While I would not say that the ice storm of 2013 came out of nowhere, as there was plenty of warning, we were nonetheless surprised but the ...