After eighteen years, I am hanging up my piano teacher hat. I will dearly miss my students, who are like family to me. The piano teacher/student bond is like no other. A relationship full of respect and mutual appreciation brings more than piano playing skills. Life skills are learned on the bench of a piano. I am a richer person for the experience, and have memories full of joy, frustration, laughter, friendship, and pride. Thank you to all who supported me during these years. Wonder what the next eighteen years will bring?

 

Present Meets Past

 

Being in the presence of these magnificent creatures was rather humbling. These photos are taken at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta. If you ever pass through the prairie that way, be sure to stop in!

These guys have it really tough!

 

Christmas in Calgary

 

Christ is Born! Glorify Him!

Merry Christmas - and I do mean Merry Christmas, not Merry Holiday, or some other innocuous greeting that means absolutely nothing. Christmas is a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ! Hence the title Christmas. I don't care if people celebrate Hanuka, or Kwanza instead of Christmas; Happy Hanuka and Merry Kwanza to them, and I mean that joyfully. I am a Christian and I celebrate Christmas, so please wish me a Merry Christmas. I find it curious that the same folk who want to take Christ out of the holiday are not complaining about receiving a federal holiday from work, or asking that it be removed as one of our federal holidays altogether. I wonder if folks have ever thought about where St. Valentines Day originated? Or Halloween for that matter. Many of our Holidays have a Christian origin. Take Thanksgiving; who are we giving thanks to? I dare say the pilgrims were not giving thanks to some goddess. Okay, enough ranting. I really do wish everyone a Merry Christmas from the bottom of my heart. Christ is Born! Glorify Him!

Memories

 When I think about life, one thing becomes very clear - memories are all we have. We come into this life with nothing, and we leave with nothing. Nothing, that is, except our sense of self and accomplishment, our spiritual struggle, our relationship with God, friends and family. Rather than leaving behind a wealth of material gain, I hope to leave behind a legacy of memory: hospitality, friendship, comfort of being, love that pours forth freely, faithfulness beyond measure. Oh, and a quilt or three or four...