September: The month of refocusing
My wife is a teacher and my teen is of course a student, which means that come the end of every school year, they’re suddenly around home a lot more and w...
Author: Reay
Trying to be okay to play
I have a bit of a weird thing with playing video games, in that when I’m playing them, I often feel like I can — nay, should — be doing something more productiv...
Hunt for quality, not just name brands
When I was young, my parents held the Sony brand up as one of the best technology manufacturers in the world. Those were the TVs we got when we could, those wer...
This isn’t giving up, this is letting go
I went to my first Fan Expo yesterday and managed to get in one seminar led by experienced panellists. The second seminar was a bust because, whether by some mi...
When good music is SO good
The province-owned liquor store I work in has planned playlists that they swap out every “period”, the segments of the year when featured products a...
Naps are highly underrated
I’m honestly not sure why naps aren’t more popular. They shake off the tiredness and recharge the batteries if you maybe had a bad night, or if you worked parti...
Get the bread that goes moldy faster
J and I have, completely unplanned, caught some documentary shows about food and food processing recently, and bread was among the topics. Perhaps due to that, ...
Still working on the 80% rule
One of the many excellent ideas and encouragements that Amie McNee suggests in her fantastic book is to get comfortable with the idea that a creative work that’...
Time for a tea test
Other than a brief dalliance with coffee in high school, I’ve been a tea drinker for the vast bulk of my life. I like the smell of coffee, and I like the taste ...