When my wife Wendy and I got married, we already knew through talks we had together about family… how many children we wanted; how long we wanted to wait after getting married to start having children; and how far apart we would like them. We started trying for our first child in February 2004. As luck would have it, it didn’t take too long, and...
Wendy was invited to go on a winery tour with some friends on the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend. I don’t drink wine (as it is a migraine trigger), but I do love to cook with wine. However, I didn’t feel me going on a wine tour would make any sense. So, Wendy and I decided to divide and conquer. She goes on the wine tour,...
I have been doing freelance graphic design for many years. Even while working at Canada’s largest community newspaper, I was designing marketing campaigns for many of my own clients. But I always worked under my personal name… I didn’t have a company name. I was still working at the newspaper when my eldest daughter started her first year at school. A week after school started,...