Believing is Seeing
Growing up, you’re taught to have good manners, be polite, and talk well of people. It’s actually common sense to be civil with each other. But we all know that most of the time, what we say doesn’t agree with what we’re thinking. We’re a little more transparent when it comes to body language. […]
Skating on Thin Ice
It wasn’t a surprise to anybody that Daniel would end up playing hockey. When he was a toddler, he never watched TV. And then at some point when hockey was on, he started noticing it. Soon after, his first word was “hockey”. It came out “hock”, but we knew what he was trying to say. […]
Dad’s Jedi Mind Trick
Throughout high school and young adulthood, most of my friends remember my dad as a smoker and homemade wine drinker. He always had a cigarette in his mouth and a glass of wine in his hand. He smoked in the house, the car, and anywhere else he wanted, just like most people at that time. […]
The Priest Who Killed Hitler
The Priest Who Killed Hitler Back in the days when my mother’s uncle was a priest, families were so proud when one of their sons got the call. I always thought it was because everyone was so religious. But over the years, I got to learn there was more to it than that. They only […]
Daniel’s best day ever
Daniel’s Best Day Ever Daniel was about 10 years old. It was only his second year of being a goalie and his third year of playing hockey. He made the rep team and was so excited. We were in a tournament in Abbotsford and Daniel’s team made it all the way to the finals, playing […]
Canada Day with Spinal Tap
I was at work one day in 1992 when a guy asked me if Mike called me yet to invite me to a special event he had two tickets for. I said that he hadn’t. Mike and I weren’t particularly close, so I wasn’t offended. Over the next couple of hours I heard that Mike […]
Scratch one off my bucket list
It was 1992 when we heard that David Coverdale and Jimmy Page were in town recording an album together. David Coverdale was the singer of a band called White Snake. Jimmy Page has been my idol for many years. He’s the guitarist for what I consider to be the best band in the world, Led […]
My Mom’s Lineage
My Mom’s Lineage When I was a kid, growing up in Scarborough, Ontario, there was another young family living a few doors down with their old German grandmother. When the old lady saw my brother and me, she said that we were German. My mom tried to tell her that we weren’t German. We were […]
I’m a Dalmatian
My parents are from the Dalmatian coast of Croatia. Back then it was still part of Yugoslavia and Italy. Most of you have heard of the coastal town of Dubrovnik, especially after learning that the TV show Game of Thrones was filmed there. My parents are from an island north of that. The coastal town […]
One Wedding and a Concert
When I first moved to Vancouver, my cousin Frank convinced me to split a Hot Seats membership with him. Hot Seats gave us the opportunity to buy two tickets to any concerts before they went on sale to the public. I said, sure. We got to see a lot of concerts from the first few […]