Posted by Greg on August 26th, 2010 at 11:58 pm

Sometimes I like dates. Dates are fun. Remembering the date of birth of people you love. Celebrating the date of special events along your path of life thus far, whatever they may be. I even like to celebrate weird holidays like, Flag Day (Jun 14), Canada Day (Jul 1), Boxing Day (Dec 26), and Three [...]

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Continue reading about Seven Years of Published Words

Posted by Greg on August 16th, 2010 at 2:04 pm

I just finished reading the book you see here, The Council of Dads, and would definitely recommend it. Overall it was a moving, and compelling story written by an author who found out he had very aggressive bone cancer—and mostly all he could think of was his twin 3-year-old girls, and that they might be [...]

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Continue reading about Slow Down

Posted by Greg on August 8th, 2010 at 11:55 pm

This afternoon, what started out as some outside playing time, turned into the great deforestation project of 2010. While the boys and I were tossing the football around, Grandpa decided to climb up on top of their fifth-wheel camper and clear off some things. Well, that reminded me of a few low-hanging tree branches I [...]

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Continue reading about Do A Great Job, Not Just An ‘OK’ Job

Posted by Greg on August 4th, 2010 at 9:00 am

Saw this on a friend’s blog today and had to repost here. If ever there was an intelligent, wise man… well most of them seemed to live in the late 18th century! Thomas Jefferson being chief among them. You may remember I posted here awhile ago that I found a collection of Jefferson’s writings in [...]

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Continue reading about Ten Rules To Live By – Thomas Jefferson

Posted by Greg on June 27th, 2010 at 11:15 pm

I’ve been without a hair brush for a few days now. It first disappeared following a bath night for the kids when it was being passed around freely amongst the various heads in our household: predominantly the female heads, led by our two-year-old, Emma. As I watched her wield the brush both for her own [...]

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Continue reading about Oh Where Is My Hairbrush?

Posted by Greg on June 18th, 2010 at 7:33 am

Following some errands yesterday (which mostly didn’t go as planned, since, due to a much later start to our excursion, everything was closing on us!) on a lovely, nearly-summer’s night with a beautiful sunset, I decided that we should finish off the day with a visit to a local park. It’s a small county park [...]

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Continue reading about Unexpected Fun at Swift’s Landing Park

Posted by Greg on June 15th, 2010 at 10:21 am

If you have been watching any of the World Cup so far this month (perhaps even if you haven’t) you know that the word of the tournament so far is: Vuvuzela. Now, I am no fan of the constant, buzzing drone that provides the soundtrack to every minute of every match… nor am I so [...]

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Continue reading about FIFA World Cup 2010: Vuvuzelas!

Posted by Greg on June 11th, 2010 at 9:57 am

Not sure if you have read the Charles Dickens work Oliver Twist, or, if you have that it has been recent enough that you would recall the plot in any detail. The boys and I are almost three quarters of the way through it, and rapt by the story of this gentle young boy’s circumstantially [...]

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Continue reading about The Real Hues Are Delicate

Posted by Greg on June 10th, 2010 at 10:41 pm

On our way home from a night of re-stocking our cupboards, we came upon a line of stopped cars. It was very odd, and, from where we were we couldn’t quite see what was happening (or had happened), but it soon became apparent that an accident had just very recently occurred. There were cars pulled [...]

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Continue reading about Fleeting

Posted by Greg on June 5th, 2010 at 9:45 am

I finally officially completed the book I wrote about previously, Amazing Grace, which tells the story of the life of William Wilberforce. I said it before, but I feel like I can’t say it enough: this man was an incredible human being. His life, so affected by what he called the “Great Change”—his awakening to [...]

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Continue reading about A Few More Thoughts on William Wilberforce