The good old days

Jason Scott, creator of Textfiles.com, has created a brilliant documentary for old-school geeks like yours truly. BBS: The Documentary is a series of six episodes (plus two shorter films) documenting a golden age of computing. Prior to the declassified Internet becoming the mainstream mode of digital communications, home users were limited to whatever [...]

Bah? Humbug?

I’ll be perfectly frank… I do not like Christmas. I don’t like having a big, dumb tree corpse in my living-room. I don’t like having to hunt for a parking spot at the mall when all I wanted was to grab some milk and eggs at Sobeys. I don’t like hearing “God [...]

Putting the X back in XMas

It’s become an annual tradition for me to rant about the abbreviation “Xmas” which many a Christian mistaken believes is “taking the Christ out of Christmas.” The real beauty of that misunderstanding is that there’s times when it’s true. Many a non-Christian will toss out the ol’ “Xmas” because it’s not only [...]

Recovery

Thanks for the comments on that last post guys.  In short, I couldn’t have prayed for a better “first funeral” experience for Alyssa than the one we attended.  She was deeply impacted by both the emotion and the love shared there, especially as we came together to just “be family” at the reception afterwards.
Now to [...]

Children and loss

I remember the first funeral I ever attended.  My paternal grandmother passed away while I was in my early teens, and my brother and I were expected to go to the funeral.  While my brother and I were quite close to our grandmother when we were little, her progressive dementia and lengthy stay at a [...]