What a year! This time a year ago, Shelley and I had decided that we were going to move down east. The sorting had begun, but it still felt a long ways off. We had had some family visitors up in Thunder Bay. The lead story for me in 2023 was moving from Thunder Bay …
Category Archives: Yearly
2013
My memorable moments from 2013: – Speaking at my first academic conference, the SSHRC congress in Victoria – Buying a car at a yard sale and road tripping back from Van with the lovely Mari – Buying my first sailboat with Sebastian – Beginning my MA program, and being faced with the possibility that I’m …
2015
2015 was a shit show, no doubt about it. I have never worked more, or harder for almost no money. I opened a business, then had to give it up. I closed another business that had been my main occupation and passion project. I got a new job, then lost it. I neglected my …
2017
2017 tl/dr: The world has been frustrating, but my year has been great. The dominant thread of this year is centered around Shelley. We met (thanks Leah), fell in love, I moved in with her, and we bought a house together. She’s sleeping beside me now, and it’s hard to believe that it hasn’t even …
2020
I often do a year in review post around this time. It’s been a hard one to get my head around. 2020 will be rembered for a generation as a singularly chaotic year. The COVID-19 illness has dominated everybody’s daily lives since the spring. I feel lucky that, working in the hospital, I didn’t lose …