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Yesterday was my birthday. I have an odd relationship with birthdays. I love birthdays, just not my birthday. I love to celebrate others, but I get uncomfortable being celebrated, even recognized. For years I tried to repress my birthday. I would hide it on social media, or wholesale deactivate all social media on my birthday … Continue reading Annual Reflection – v27.0

Dear Dad,  I don’t tell you enough how much I love and appreciate you. We talk every day, but seldom do I express just how much you mean to me. Maybe it’s because I struggle to find the words, or the place. Maybe it’s because I’m ignorant. Or maybe it’s because I know you don’t … Continue reading Dear Dad

Col Fitness is built on the foundation of diversity and inclusion, but we don’t want to just talk about it, we are taking action.  We have launched an online fitness competition called the Col Countdown in support of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, a non-profit organization that fights for the civil liberties, human rights, and … Continue reading Taking Action in the Black Lives Matter Movement

Dear Mom, You had me at eighteen. I can’t imagine how overwhelming that would have been. You’re fresh out of high school, trying to figure out what’s next in life, and now you and Dad have a top heavy tiny human to care for. While I’m sure it felt like you were figuring out as … Continue reading Dear Mom

Preface While the backdrop of this essay is football, it is really much more. This is an exploration of some of my biggest highs and lows, and the incredible people that guided me through it. When I sat down to write, I thought it would be one-two pages but as I kept writing I kept … Continue reading Football: I love you, I hate you

I love to read. It is easily my favourite activity. I can get lost in a book for hours on end, forgetting the basic necessities of life (food and water). I’m slightly ashamed to admit that on many occasions I have cancelled plans last minute because I couldn’t put a book down.  It wasn’t until … Continue reading Reading

I am a chronic over analyzer. I can’t help but agonize over every permutation in a scenario, the pros and cons, and the potential second and third order impacts. In some ways this is a feature in my mental operating system but in a lot of ways this is a bug.  When it comes to … Continue reading Making Decisions

I am writing this on January 1, 2020. Today is the first day of a new year and a new decade. As I do every year, I spend a good portion of today alone, reflecting on the year that has passed. Given it is also the end of the decade I have also spent a … Continue reading No Plan

I have been reluctant to write about my trip to Taipei. Not because there is anything to hide, or because it was boring - far from it. I have been reluctant to write about Taipei because my experience was so ludicrous that I worried written words wouldn’t do it justice, or it wouldn't seem real. … Continue reading Taipei

I have been to Beijing twice. Both times, an interesting experience.  The first time I went to Beijing was in June 2019. It was a last minute trip planned about two weeks in advance. As anyone that has been to China knows, the Visa process to get into China can take months. I didn’t have … Continue reading Beijing