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Feb 10, 2015

Teenagers Get a Bad Rap

By |2015-02-10T07:05:03-08:00February 10, 2015|Elementary, Relationships|0 Comments

Every time our school gets hit with vandalism, my response and, that of the students is, “it was probably teenagers.” Sad, but, most likely true. No doubt much could be said about why that is and what could be done about it. I’ll leave that for another article by someone who knows more about it [...]

Jan 30, 2015

Why Walking Around the Track Matters

By |2015-01-30T07:28:11-08:00January 30, 2015|Elementary, Relationships|0 Comments

"How are you today? What did you do this weekend?" "Who are you playing with today? What are you playing?" "So, what's new in school today? What are you learning about?" Those are the questions I usually have to ask to get one of them talking. Small repertoire on my part. After all, my job wasn’t that big—it [...]

Jan 13, 2015

Honour Thy Mother-In-Law

By |2015-01-13T07:23:22-08:00January 13, 2015|Elementary, Relationships|0 Comments

My mother-in-law passed away the Monday before Christmas holidays and so I was in Edmonton the last three days of school. She was 99 years old.  Up to the last week of her life my brother-in-law said he still couldn’t put anything over on her. She died peacefully and relatively free of pain, and had expressed a [...]

Dec 6, 2014

The Three “Best” Things About Christmas…

By |2014-12-06T07:12:54-08:00December 6, 2014|Celebrating, Relationships|2 Comments

The Grade one classes spend the month of December focusing on the different Christmas traditions each family celebrates. Over the years, I have witnessed many of these mini-celebrations with numerous ACES families. A question that has often come up is, “What about you? How do you celebrate Christmas?” So here are three of our best [...]

Dec 2, 2014

A Church, A School, and A Wedding

By |2021-07-07T21:27:09-07:00December 2, 2014|Celebrating, Faith, Relationships|0 Comments

Heidi and I decided to get married in a vineyard—an active winery that makes quality wine. The sermon of the wedding ceremony included some messaging around Jesus’ very first miracle of turning water into wine and we participated in our very first communion together as a married couple—in front of a whole "host of witnesses." [...]

Oct 13, 2014

Roy, Teenagers, and Nicaragua

By |2014-10-13T19:11:45-07:00October 13, 2014|Elementary, Relationships, Secondary|0 Comments

I spend most of my working time around 3 to 12 year olds. That makes my job one of the best I can imagine. But I have also discovered I really like hanging out with teenagers. Most of the opportunities to do that in the last four years have been with my involvement in the [...]

Feb 17, 2014

Now Let Me Tell You About Tennis Racquets…

By |2014-02-17T07:22:01-08:00February 17, 2014|Relationships|1 Comment

My first tennis racquet was one my mom picked up at a discount store in Bellingham when I was nine years old. It had a metal frame and it weighed a tonne. The thing was indestructible. In other words it was perfect for my use as a somewhat careless middle school-aged boy. In fact, forty [...]

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