049: I am grateful for humor

November 10, 2009
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I know that we spell humour with a u in Canada, but to really get the search engine traffic one must spell American. So humor me Canadian friends. Laughing makes me feel good. I do it a lot. I like to help other people do it too… laugh I mean. I am so grateful I [...]

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048: I am grateful for books

November 9, 2009
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Reading is one of my favorite things to do. I love crawling into bed with a good book. Books have been around for a long time. I don’t see them going away soon. Books started out on clay in Mesopotamia and have been printed on everything from wax, papyrus, linen and parchment; even on human [...]

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047: I am grateful for generosity

November 8, 2009
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Today I got two more donations for my Movember efforts. One was from someone I know well and the other was from someone I just met. Both were generous. Some people give because they are taught that it is the right thing to do and think no more about it. Others give to a particular [...]

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046: I am grateful for music

November 7, 2009
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Last week when Carol and I were in Seattle we went to Paul Allen’s Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum. The photo above is of the amazing guitar sculpture inside empsfm. The extensive  and carefully crafted exhibits were nothing short of amazing. We were completely blown away by the Jimi Hendrix exhibit and Guitar [...]

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045: I am grateful for photos

November 6, 2009

Every post on this blog starts out with a photo. Some of my favorite people on the planet are avid photographers. Here’s a picture that means a lot to me. Photo by me. I took this photo of our Springer Spaniel, Moosh, in our backyard when we lived in Maple Ridge. By the time this [...]

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044: I am grateful for coffee

November 5, 2009

Come on. If you know me, you knew this was coming. I love a good, steaming hot cup of coffee. Ahh! Photo by Julius Schorzman. Coffee is my go juice. I am not myself in the morning until I have had a cup. This makes me an addict, I know, but compared to other things [...]

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043: I am grateful for pie

November 4, 2009

As she had a staff team building function at her boss’s place today that finished up early Carol came home and made me a great dinner. We had a hearty chicken pot pie for the main course and for dessert, a flat apple pie, that used The Pioneer Woman‘s recipe for apple pie filling from [...]

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042: I am grateful for #Movember

November 3, 2009

I am growing a Mo (moustache) for the month of Movember to help raise awareness, and maybe even some money, to aid in finding a cure for prostate cancer. Photo by me in my office. Clearly that isn’t my real mo, but an artist’s rendition of what my mo could look like in the very [...]

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041: I am grateful for pasta

November 2, 2009

Tonight we had sacchettini pasta stuffed with chicken and bacon with a creamy bolognese sauce. It was yummy! Photo by Adam Fagen on Flickr When I was eating low-carb, pasta was one of the things I missed the most. I am glad I came to my senses. What is pasta? Pasta (paste) is “any of [...]

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040: I am grateful for Vancouver

November 1, 2009

Carol and I had a great time in Seattle, but it sure was nice to set foot on Canadian soil again. Photo by Evan Leeson on Flickr Seeing the sign saying Vancouver at the train station sure made me happy, and we had only been away three days. What is Vancouver? Vancouver ” is a [...]

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