The news is filled these days with talk about techniques to combat anxiety and worry while we each try to find a solution that works for us as an individual. Worry on any given day is present; is picking and poking at our peace of mind, wrestling with our sense […]
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The third Saturday in June marked the opening of musky season across Sunset Country. Following along on some of my friends’ social media feeds over the weekend, it looked like the musky fishing was pretty good as plenty of nice fish were popping up, which is nice to see. Through […]
The Greeks have a special word that describes a family joining a Greek family as a result of a marriage. It is a wonderful term that explains the joining of two families through marriage. We hadn’t thought of the expansion of our family to our Brendan’s wife family when they […]
With Friday being a P.D. Day, I decided to book off from work and prepare for sheep shearing as well as spend the day with Maddie and Marlee. When I booked it off, I didn’t realize I would be nursing two bunnies and bottle-feeding a few lambs. My mom has […]
I have friends visiting from Dawson City, the kind of people you meet and feel instantly as if you have known them your whole life. So off we went the other day to Fishermen’s Cove on the Eastern Passage of Nova Scotia, a small historic village on the Atlantic Shore […]
During the years that I was in high school and then university, I spent my summers working at tourist resorts around the region as a fishing guide. It’s been around 20 years since I did my first trip out at Ash Rapids Lodge on Lake of the Woods and since […]
If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say that cooking is a chore, I would be a rich man. The act of cooking a meal is just that: cooking a meal. It is not negative (or even positive for that matter), it is just something we […]
What a difference 10 days can make. Marnie and I drove from Fort Frances to Calgary on the long weekend in May, returning 10 days later. It was a great trip having never crossed the Prairies at this time of year. We wondered what the vast fields of grain would […]
The prime minister of New Zealand has just gone on maternity leave, and something about that warms and calms me. Jacinda Ardern, at age 37 the youngest female government head in the world, has a team in place who will help her do her job. But no doubt the time […]
Outside of a few weeks in the spring when crappies move to shallow water to spawn, they spend the rest of the year in deeper water. They seem to disappear over the summer months, when they suspend in deeper weeds and simply are hard to find. In the fall and […]
When we are young, we think many “things” will be the answer to our pursuit of happiness. A new bike, our first car, cool glasses (though when I first started wearing glasses at age 13, there was not a single thing cool about them, no matter the colour or shape). […]
After the long winter we experienced this year, the nice weather across Northwestern Ontario over the past week sure has been a pleasure. Hopefully it’s a sign of what’s to come over the next few months. As water temperatures have increased rapidly over the past week, so has the fishing […]
