Category Archives: Personal

Nostalgia so thick you need a chainsaw to cut it

Posted on 18 July, 2011 by Mike

This was my lunch yesterday at the collaborative Obon service held in Steveston. (We did it with the guys from Vancouver and Fraser Valley. This is, incidentally, my second Obon service in as many weeks — hooray for travel to … Continue reading →

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Hope and faith for the future

Posted on 17 June, 2011 by Mike

“We’ll know when we get there.” I don’t know whether there’s an actual origin for this phrase. It’s something that’s been flitting in and out of my head for a couple of years now, since I ran into it as … Continue reading →

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Is this a news report or a trailer for a motion picture?

Posted on 22 February, 2011 by Mike

As I mentioned in the previous post, I was up in Port McNeill over the weekend and drove home after teaching this afternoon and evening. McNeill is a long way from everything; this was the furthest up I’d ever been … Continue reading →

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Go fever

Posted on 21 April, 2010 by Mike

We left to see The Lion King last night in a cloud of despondancy. The new ash plume was heading southeast, looking to blanket the entire United Kingdom for another five or six days. Little improvement was expected. I blamed … Continue reading →

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Day 6

Posted on 20 April, 2010 by Mike

Still here. Last night, we thought we had a glimmer of good news, in that a bunch of flights were supposed to operate from London airports later today. That doesn’t look like it’s going to happen, and Iceland continues to … Continue reading →

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Greetings from Vilecano land!

Posted on 18 April, 2010 by Mike

Week 5 of my epic circle-half-the-globe-twice-in-a-month adventure started out swimmingly. We left Swansea on Wednesday night, spent the night near Heathrow, planning to wake up early and catch our flight to Amsterdam the next morning. Rode the Hotel Hoppa to … Continue reading →

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The Jerry Maguire moment

Posted on 2 August, 2009 by Mike

The low-rent version, anyway. I’m wrestling with a bunch of ideas right now. They seem incredibly important; they possess a kind of urgency to them, like I want to vomit them out onto someone’s shoes. That won’t work, though — … Continue reading →

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Here's where the story ends

Posted on 31 July, 2009 by Mike

We need big change to provoke consideration in our lives. My grandmother, my mom’s mom, died 5 July, and the other week I was in Calgary for the funeral, to deliver the eulogy and, though I didn’t know it, take … Continue reading →

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