It is interesting how traditions get born within families. They are not really something that can be forced. It is more that as a group you ...

I had just settled back on to my comfy chair to watch the rest of a Formula One car race when a heard a voice reverberate through the hall, ...

When I was a child, I always had a rather up and down relationship with food, a kind of uneasy truce. I was what adults liked to distainingl...

There are many times when your eyes lock onto something or someone and for all the power in the world you just can’t tear your eyes away. I ...

What would it take to be considered a quintessential Kingstonian? The only benchmark that I have ever heard of is how many generations of a...

Numbers have always held a special fascination with me. I am not sure why I was blessed/cursed with this. Even before proper schooling the p...

It is not very often I lose control over my emotions. I have always tended to be a fairly level headed individual, not given to extremes in ...

There are some who argue that as a child we are born tabula rasa, that is a blank slate without any influence of genetics or any other influ...

I was standing in line at the tobacco counter the other day. I had finished some grocery shopping and throughout my travels up and down the ...

A few years ago my wife and I had a chance to fly out to Halifax for the weekend without the kids. Just a short hop out to the coast to vis...

A long, long time ago, light years from where I am now. Way back before kids, before I was married, a time where my now wife was still in t...

Everybody loves a mystery. I am not referring to the mysteries of life, and we all know there are many of those. The mystery I am talking ...

It seems that every generation has some symbol that represents their ideals and dreams something that crystallizes their moment in time. Be...

The other day I ran across a list of Grade 9 math questions that was in one of the papers that I read. The writer found the questions chal...

A number of years ago we decided a weekend away in Toronto would be the perfect family getaway. We got a suite in heart downtown and pulled...

Like many parents, I had a curious and inquisitive band of children. They didn’t merely stop at the standard questions about planets, mathe...

I have never been one to imagine myself as a master criminal who could outsmart the police at every step of the way. I got my taste of that...

I have been a picky eater all my life. If it wasn’t for peanut butter and jam sandwiches, I am quite sure I would have starved to death as a...

Sixty five years ago today the world was shaken to its core as my mother gave birth to the oldest member of my family; my brother Michael. ...

If we embrace Andy Warhols’ idea that every person will be famous for 15 minutes, then I should be getting worried. At last time check, I w...