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'Rock Solid' This week's blog. Enjoy! https://www.elizabethcritchley.com/blog/rock-solid

Rock Solid Last week I wrote about our birthday surprise for Pam. We had hidden rocks along the trail for her to find, each rock with either the name of a hike we have completed together, or a characteristic...

'Seek and Ye Shall Find' This week's blog. Enjoy! https://www.elizabethcritchley.com/blog/seek-and-ye-shall-find

Seek and Ye Shall Find This past Tuesday, we added a one-day twist to our regular hike. Pam celebrates her birthday this week and, it being a special one, we wanted to mark it with the attention she deserves. Over the...

'What's Your Type?' This week's blog. Enjoy! https://www.elizabethcritchley.com/blog/whats-your-type

What's Your Type? Our son, Greg, spends time, as do I, thinking about life. Not just the regular stuff like what the week looks like, what we’ll do on the weekend, or how’s our money situation, but bigger...

'Bloom Baby, Bloom' This week's blog. Enjoy! https://www.elizabethcritchley.com/blog/bloom-baby-bloom

Bloom, Baby, Bloom Jim and I have just returned from an incredible trip to the Netherlands. We also spent a bit of time in Belgium and France, but most of our days were enjoyed soaking in the sounds, sights and...

'Witness Protection Program' This week's blog. Enjoy! https://www.elizabethcritchley.com/blog

Blog Fifteen years ago, I tasked the leadership students in my school with choosing a global project to work on. We had built good leadership muscles in our school and in our community, but our...

'The Birthday Song' This week's blog. Enjoy! https://www.elizabethcritchley.com/blog/the-birthday-song

The Birthday Song Our family has been partying all week. Birthday partying that is! Our most senior member, Jim, celebrated his seventieth birthday first, then two days later, our most junior member, Andy,...

'Time' This week's blog. Enjoy! https://www.elizabethcritchley.com/blog/time9673798

Time This past week, little Andy, who is three, asked me to put sixteen minutes on the timer for him. He loves to have a timer set for him whenever we’re going to be heading out or if he has a nap...

'The Last Great Bank Robbery' This week's blog. Enjoy! https://www.elizabethcritchley.com/blog/the-last-great-bank-robbery

The Last Great Bank Robbery This past Tuesday as we started up the trail, snow began to gently fall. Despite the fact that we’re ready for some warmer days, it was absolutely beautiful. Pam commented that this could be...

'Seeds of Spring' This week's blog. Enjoy! https://www.elizabethcritchley.com/blog/seeds-of-spring

Seeds of Spring Calgary used to be unique in its changeable spring weather, but I understand that over the years the rest of the country has wanted in on the action, and now too enjoys False Spring #1, then more...

'Ripples' This week's blog. Enjoy! https://www.elizabethcritchley.com/blog/ripples

Ripples I’m out of sorts this week. Not crabby, not sick, just unsettled. I suspect many Canadians are feeling the same. Powerless isn’t a feeling I often seek. Truth be told, I never seek it. ...

'Beside' This week's blog. Enjoy! https://www.elizabethcritchley.com/blog/beside

Beside People often ask me how I think up what I’ll write about. I don’t do a lot of worrying about it. Often, sometime during the week, I see or hear something that gives me pause or makes me go...

'Old Dog, New Trick' This week's blog. Enjoy! https://www.elizabethcritchley.com/blog/old-dog-new-tricks

Old Dog, New Trick It’s been a humbling week. Not due to politics. I’m trying to avoid writing about that. That fire does not need my oxygen right now. No, my humbling came in the most Canadian of ways. ...