parking lot

parking lot

I’m in the parking lot again. Drove one hour west and now I sit there waiting for Starbucks to open. Why do I do this? Why not get an extra hour of sleep? Why not find a job that is closer to home? Why all these questions at five o’clock in the morning? I’m extremely...
a drummer

a drummer

Time is a magical and the strangest thing. It is very predictable. There are sixty seconds in a minute, sixty minutes in an hour and there are twenty four hours. Days turn to weeks, weeks, turn to months, and months turn to years. Yet time is most unpredictable...
second chances

second chances

You should believe in second chances even though you’ll not always get an opportunity to take one. But regardless if you get to go around again, you should cherish and embrace anytime you are lucky enough to do so. Second chances are not easy and they are infinitely...
moments

moments

When did we stop experiencing life and decided life was a job? We work so hard for the means to live without making the time to live meaningfully. We get well educated or trained so that we can find a good job. Those jobs are often stressful and demanding, and we...
moon over 401

moon over 401

If you don’t live in the Northern Hemisphere, and don’t live in a little town of Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, you missed something glorious. And if you don’t wake up really early in the morning and don’t commute down the 401 towards Toronto, you missed something too. You...
being gratuitous

being gratuitous

Gratuity is a funny word that we often only deal with at the end of an extended stay at our favourite coffee house or some fancy or perhaps not so fancy restaurant. We tend think about gratuity in terms of some monetary gain or loss for someone. We think of gratuity...