New Kid on the Block
New Kid on the Block In terms of work, nothing is harder than being unemployed. But starting a new job at a new company is a close second. This is […]
Category Archives: Steph’s Life
What A Year of Unemployment Taught Me
I’ll be starting a new job at the end of this week, after about 50 weeks of unemployment. It was extremely hard for me in these last months, but I […]
YVR: Long Layover Delight
This past August, on the way to Germany, we planned a long layover in the Vancouver airport for the opportunity to walk around a bit in one of our favorite […]
The Rejected Wedding Speech
Before you get the wrong idea, you should know this isn’t a raunchy, zany collection of zingers à la The Wedding Crashers or Bridemaids. I was asked to write a […]
No Hollywood Death
Hollywood did a piss job of preparing me for my father-in-law’s diagnosis in mid-August of terminal pancreatic cancer. Slow to be discovered and quick to consume the patient, we never […]
Germany: Taking the Circus to the Circus
Christmas Eve I watched my four nephews nearly die of present-unwrapping-anticipation-insanity and almost fell asleep during the evening mass. Neither Chris nor I are religious, but his parents wanted to […]
Germany, Day 3: Not Doing the Tourist Thing
Most Americans think Germany is great. It looks like Disneyland. Actually, it’s the other way around, danke schoen. There are rivers of beer. There are mountains of chopped and formed […]
Day 2: Shanghai for Beginners
Day 2 Saturday, April 13, 2013 Morning: Breakfast is free except for coffee. Mmmmm, it was actually pretty good coffee. There’s soy milk too. And oatmeal. And veggie steamed buns. […]
Next Stop: Shanghai
I kept a journal while on my amazing three-week sojourn through Shanghai and the Guangxi province in April of this year. I will share the daily adventures and pictures from […]
All Things Bright and Dark
Soon I will clink a glass of champagne on New Year’s Eve and bid goodbye to a strange year. Taking the Big Leap When it was decided that the full-time […]
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