Here is a post I wrote last year for advent. Back then, almost nobody read my blog; it's a long post, but I'm also more proud of thi...

Lately, the cause of consternation back home has been the condition of Roboseyo's faith. The last things I wrote here about faith were ...

Was it really seven years ago? I woke up early that morning, to feed the landlord's horses. I came upstairs to collect the dogfood the ...

I was the best man at my brother's wedding. Here was my toast for him and his wonderful wife, Caryn. Dan And Caryn Ouwehand's Wed...

My Mom's dad (we call him Opa, the Dutch word for grandfather) has made one of the main tasks of his retirement to write a family histor...

For me, in the words of my old Creative Writing bud, Sparkey, 2007 has been kickdonkey awesomepants, friends. A rundown of reasons for the s...

You may remember I went through a rough patch in late 2005/early 2006: losing your mom, and then breaking up with The Reason You Moved Acros...

(the pictures are explained at the end of the post.) Before I get into that: a thought on music: the measure of a great songwriter, I...

I've decided, in a similar spirit to people choosing to read their old diaries, and see what insights/points/issues defined them at some...

Here's Mel and me and her husband (fiancee at the time) Brent, all at my university graduation. I made a joke on my blog comments page t...

I also sifted through scads of old photo negatives, and got London Drugs to scan the best ones, the keepers, onto CD, so that I could preser...

Highway 22 in Alberta is also known, appropriately, as the Cowboy Trail. Here are some pictures from google images. (See? Who needs a came...