I started learning guitar in 2008-09. Very early I learned a couple of the easiest tunes to learn like House of the Rising Sun, Hallelujah and other tunes like those. It is interesting how some of the best songs use a few basic chords like …… G …… D ……. C !!!! One weekend my […]
Leony and her friend Marie were sitting behind me under the umbrellas of the pub D’Orsay https://www.dorsayrestaurant.com/ under a Quebec City downpour ….. they were kind enough to share their umbrella …. with me! We connected in one of those Canadian kinda downpours ….. one minute SUNSHINE …. the next ….. RAIN!!!!! …… we were […]
This is a story that I wrote and self-published around 2012. It is based on a joke I heard while working up north in Alberta. The idea is that it gets so cold, so fast in Alberta that ducks get frozen into their duck ponds – LOL. In 1992 Mona, my wife, and Ryan our […]
I lived in Quebec City from March to November 2021 and just loved it here. The Saint Lawrence River is a gigantic river that was covered in ice when I arrived. It was amazing to see the ice flowing upstream because of the Atlantic tides that affect the river. I hope that this post is […]
Be careful what you wish for!! We had a roommate named Richard who was a lot of fun and we had many great experiences with him. Richard was an athletic type that did lots of things on his own including going hiking/mountaineering ….. The line between these two activities is not clear to me ….. […]
I suppose we can all imagine a freak accident where a ballet dancer is performing some great feat and slips and falls and breaks their neck ….. such a tragedy ……. they die from their injury …… Well this is not that story!!!! This is a story about how humans can balance risk and …… […]