It’s no secret that playing the lottery is a sucker’s game. The stats are crystal clear regarding the probability of winning those jackpots; you’re just donating money. But we keep playing because … somebody must win. Consider Lotto 6/49, the first nation-wide Canadian lottery game launched back in 1982. The odds of winning the classic […]
10 Years of Blogging
“Are you still writing your blog?” Six simple words. One innocent question. A cast iron frypan of reality checking me right upside the head. A good friend and a close relative each asked this of me within weeks late last year. And with that, a nagging, unsettling truth I’d been ignoring for some time suddenly […]
F*ck Fifty
Today is my 50th birthday. No! No. Don’t clap. Don’t send me happiness wishes. Don’t click gleeful emojis on my social feeds. Just. Don’t. I have no desire to celebrate this loathsome birthday milestone. Nor shall I feign joy in reaching it. I do not like it, Moe I Go. I do not like the […]
How to Win at Candy Crush
Six months ago, to the very day, I went cold turkey. I gave up candy, as in crush. I closed the app on my tablet one final time and haven’t opened it since. A not so easy, or assured, thing, that. As with most newly abandoned bad habits, I was reluctant to boast about this […]
13 Bits of Advice for Future Stay At Home Dads
A few weeks from now I mark my ninth anniversary of being a stay-at-home dad, or SAHD if you’re really into horrible acronyms. That is damn near a decade! I’m also well past those demanding first years of my children’s lives, those years before the glorious respite that is grade school. The ones that society […]
What If The Dukes of Hazzard Had Been A CBC Show?
Imagine, for a moment, an alternate universe where Canada is the dominant entertainment production force on the planet rather than the United States of America. Everything about the two countries is exactly as it is now the only exception is that Hollywood is in Vancouver and the major television networks dominating North American television since […]