‘Tis the season of extremes. We’re inundated with the message that we should show those close to us just how much we care by giving gifts. It’s the wishlist time of year. Gift giving is a wonderful thing and for many people it’s an effective form of communicating gratitude, affection and humour. This often leads… Read More Seasonally Appropriate
There are very few true parenting experts in the world. Before you disagree or feel the need to defend your vast wealth of parenting knowledge, let’s look at this. Most people share from their own experience, and even if their experience is far greater than ours, it is based on their own family. That makes… Read More The Easter Bunny, The Tooth Ferry and Parenting Experts
“What level of uncertainty can you handle in your lives?” is not the question you want to be asked when sitting down to a meeting regarding your future, but there we sat confronted by the unknown in the form of a question. In our experience, whenever we open the door of transition just to survey… Read More When Peace Kicks you in the Face and Makes no Apologies
In our opinion, human trafficking is one of mankind’s greatest acts of arrogance: to assign a monetary value to a fellow human being. We attended STAND, the Salvation Army’s weekend to end human trafficking, and want to share some of what we learned. Trafficking in persons is one of the fastest growing criminal activities in… Read More People, Pornography and Price Tags
Life may not have handed us lemons, but with our visa delay it certainly feels like a curve ball. Though we may not be wielding a lemon shooting gun, like this cartoon, we’re making the most of an unexpected situation. It has not been easy reshuffling our fall plans at the last-minute. This added time… Read More Life and Lemons
As non-profits and humanitarian organizations engage issues all over the world, have you ever wondered what people on the other end of the partnership are thinking? Global Summit is an opportunity for you to hear directly from leaders from around the world as they share their views and experiences with social, economic and spiritual transformation… Read More Global Summit 2011
Let’s make this official: for those of you who don’t know, Amber is incubating a little human. That’s right, we’re expecting. Both Amber and The Passenger are doing well (though there have been two trips to the Emergency Room) and our little guy (no, that’s not a slip) is set to make an appearance on… Read More The Passenger
Like car parts, when plans fail they often do so in a dramatic, last-minute way that leaves you standing on the side of life’s highway wondering how you didn’t see that coming. When we returned to Canada our schedule looked a little something like this: July 14: secretly fly to Toronto July 16: even secretlier… Read More Dear Plans, R.I.P.
They knew we were coming back to Canada to renew our visas, but Amber’s parents had no idea we were in BC (or in the same house for that matter).
Application forms, bank records, medical checks, supporting documents, multiple trips to the consulate, letters of invitation and passport-sized photographs; if you’ve ever applied for something more than a tourist visa than you know what we’re talking about. Getting permission to move to a country feels like a full-time job, but it gives you more than… Read More The Immigration Family
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