I did a little shorty beach vacation so that I could come home in time to… go to the beach! Each of the Highland and Scottish Festivals in which Connor plays has it’s own charms. On the upside, Kincardine has a very tight competition circle surrounded by bleachers under some giant century-old trees. On the […]

  This one feels like a Super Bonus round, since it’s a vacation *to the beach*, but it totally counts. Apparently, fluffy white beaches are kinda like quicksand. So while the sand shifts, and shells get thrown up to the shore, sea glass gets buried. No matter. Not all visits to the beach are about […]

I had good intentions. Really I did. One of the Paris Port Dover Grade Pipes and Drums bands were at the 55th Cobourg Highland Games. Child and his bandie friends drove together, so the band parents drove together, too. Usually at Cobourg, I visit the beach just beyond the Games fence, but this time, I stayed with my friend […]

  A cool and overcast holiday Monday is a splendid time for me to be out on the beach, so off we go! The last time I was in Grand Bend was more than half a lifetime ago, and it was winter. It was a melancholy trip where I was trying to hold together a […]

I could have gone to cadet field training to help make dinner or help with canteen. If it went well, it would have been a good experience that recharged me. But if it didn’t go well, the above-average anxiety week would have spilled over into the next week. I know that Mother’s Day was going […]

Whatever you lose, like a you, or a me, It’s always yourself you find at the sea. –e e cummings I lead a pretty charmed life. I have a great relationship with my parents and my sister and my child and my spouse. I have a job I like, in a career I like that […]

A while ago, I was at a social event with Mike’s golf friends. Someone asked me what I did – Mike golfed, so what did I do? And I didn’t have a good answer for that. It made me ragey that I really didn’t have a thing that sounded commensurate with their commitment to golf. […]