Indelible Adventures

The sun is streaming into the Starbucks where I’m writing this weeks blog, its warm embrace is deceptive as I had to walk through a veritable blizzard to get to the store this morning.  If you closed your eyes you could almost imagine it being a sultry summer’s day outside given the warmth that it’s projecting through the window and not the actual depths of winter that we’re experiencing. Peering into the sky I also recognize the clouds floating by as those that you’d generally equate with the French Impressionists.  I can almost imagine the likes of Monet, Renoir, Sisley or Seurat readying their brushes and canvas ready to slip outside to capture the beauty of the sky this morning albeit a frigid morning (-10C).  One of the few things that have stayed the same over the centuries is the landscape of the sky, so even 150 years on you can still observe the same structures, patterns and colors of the skies that those masters captured so beautifully all those years ago. ...

For the past three plus year I've been blogging about my life with Zach and Sami, our adventures, my career changes, new business and travel adventures.   I find that it’s so easy to take a completely introspective view of the world, but this week I began taking stock of all the other things that I've noticed going on around me especially on the social media front.   Let’s start with the usual suspects shall we? It’s surprising but, Facebook is, for me becoming more irrelevant than ever!   I find that rather than an intimate group of friends keeping in touch and celebrating each others up and downs in life there seems to be more “pulp” than ever before being broadcast which tends to clog the experience I’m looking for on a personal connection front.   Whether its advertising or pseudo advertising its annoying!   To give you a tangible example last year when the ice bucket challenge was at the zenith of its reign of po...