
Signs of Spring
As I sit here at my desk in Cochrane, my Weather Network app tells me it is -14 outside right now, and it "feels like" -20. I look out my window to find another fresh dusting of the white stuff. What is the date again?? Didn't the first day of spring happen recently?...

“You Can’t Put Your Feet On the Ground Until You’ve Touched the Sky” – Paul Auster
When author Paul Auster wrote the quote above, I'm not sure if he had witnessed an Alberta sky but I'm sure that if he had, he would gasp. Yesterday I continued my new Saturday ritual: hopping in the Jeep, picking a road, a direction and seeing where that road might...

Wide Open Spaces
Living in my new western home I notice the mountains calling my name each Saturday. Yesterday was no different. The day dawned warm (yay) and sunny and so I hopped in my Jeep and set my course for The Rockies. It is a beautiful and luckily for me, short drive and on...