Year: 2022

• Goodbye, Pope Benedict!

  

  Ask any Catholic our age who their favourite pope (who lived in their lifetime) is and 9 out of 10 will say Pope John Paul II.  Saint John Paul II was indeed one of the greatest popes to have ever lived.  His long and productive reign was unparalleled in modern times.  However, I am the…

• Family Alberta Trip 2021

  

  After being mostly cooped up at home for a year and a half after the COVID pandemic started in 2020, we made our first out-of-province trip in September 2021.  The last time Renee and I were in Western Canada was before we had kids, about 13 years prior (although I had been several times in…

• Collecting Comics: Picking Up My Childhood Hobby

  

    Me and My Prized Possession – Amazing Spider-man #361, 1st Appearance of Carnage Like many kids growing up in Canada, collecting baseball cards and comics was a big part of my childhood.  Particularly, when I was in grade 7 and 8, I spent much of my spare time reading, drawing, buying, and trading comics. …

• Update: 2021 New Year Resolution – Bible in a Year (and a Half)

  

  Hello Everyone!  Hope you are all enjoying a relatively COVID free summer!  My writing seems to come in waves and the past year definitely has been a trough.  Hopefully, I will make it a priority to do some more blogging this latter part of the year. As a quick update to my 2021 New Year Resolution of…