Opinion

Before fatherhood I had a lot more time to spend gaming and even for the first year or so I could put Elly on my lap, pick up a wireless joystick and play for a few hours with the vibration and sound turned off. Don't judge me.

Congratulations on "Snow." Creating a musical play from scratch, writing the script, producing the songs and hiring professional actors was an accomplishment in itself.

The first step is always the hardest

Before I sat down to write my tech predictions for 2010 I decided to look back at my 2009 predictions to see how I did. The Internet meme that could best describe it is "FAIL.

The first things on most people's minds when looking forward to 2010 are the Olympics and Paralympics.

When I was, like everybody, given little notice that the Whistler musical, "SNOW" was showing at Millennium Place, I actually cried. It could have been the PMS, but it upset me beyond belief.

Chris Hauserman remembered

The end of a year is a time for lists because, well, they're easy. Subjective. Basically, the stories have already been written, they just have to be reassembled in some kind of order.

A slight modification on the traditional end-of-the-year lists was found in some of last weekend's newspapers. The Globe and Mail and the New York Times both carried commentaries about the litany of failures that result from insufficient scrutiny.

It was the ultimate family celebration. A time for all of us in the tribe to count our myriad blessings. We weren't smug about it or anything; we knew how fortunate we were. We just didn't realize how tenuous our hold on happiness really was.