Recently, I had the great fortune of running into one of my favorite neighbors.  He introduced me to a high school friend he reconnected with after 53 years, no less! My neighbor hadn’t predicted they would be walking in the park that day all those years later. We never know what life has in store […]

My great grandpa Cyril and great grandma Adelaide met up in Canada on a buffalo hunt in 1865.  I’m not sure if this excited me to know that I come from stock that embraced adventure or that great grandpa Cyril lived to be almost 102 back when life expectancy was 56.6 years of age for […]

Three generations have been forever changed because of my dad’s childhood at the orphanage and because of this we’re a family obsessed with peanut butter. I picture my dad, about the age of 10, looking skyward and making a promise that he will one day eat as much peanut butter as he desires.  This likely […]