Quebec
A refuge in the Laurentians
March 8, 2019
This sense of possibility, this large swath of low-rise mountains just to our north full of trails that go over over peaks and through valleys, by lakes, rivers and waterfalls, with places to stay along the way (summer camping and winter cabins) has infused me with a sense of hope that I might be able to call southern Quebec home for the next decade of my life, maybe longer.
The necessity for homeschool community
July 5, 2018
There's no easy path to raising kids. But in a society where most kids go to school, choosing an alternative path necessarily brings more resistance and effort.
Build up to The Breaking
October 10, 2016
I hadn't intended to tell the story of The Breaking in the context of vocation and work, but it's the story that has bubbled to the surface in many posts and has been told in bits and pieces, through direct and indirect means, over many months.
At the market
September 18, 2016
It is completely possible in Montreal to eat a wide variety of exclusively Quebec grown produce through the summer months.
Spending time with my mom (and eagerly anticipating spring and summer adventures)
March 21, 2016
As the days slowly lengthen and winter's magic wanes (early winter is magical but the magic doesn't last forever) I am itching for a change.
l'hiver au Quebec (Winter in Quebec)
January 21, 2015
"It's a simple reality: if you want to live in Quebec, you have to come to terms with the winter. It's the defining season of the place, the dominating inevitability."
A quick trip to the city
March 8, 2014
When you live in the sticks as we do (the sticks with good coffee shops, good neighbours, and the mountains) you need to make regular pilgrimages to larger centres to access goods and services that are just not available "in the woods" - comic book stores, "the mall", and the ...
