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A year of living in Edmonton →  August 15, 2010

BufferIt’s been a year living in Edmonton and it’s time for an anniversary post. I’ve intended for some time to do a one year post, but now that the time has come it seems like a daunting task. How to capture all that has transpired? How to summarize the meaning of the first year? For starters, there [...]

Galaxyland →  January 24, 2010

BufferIf you are going to live 10 minutes from a mall, West Edmonton Mall is a pretty good one to live near. When we visited Edmonton in June for our original scouting expedition (the one that turned into a house-buying expedition), we took the kids to the mall. We spent the day wandering around, eating garbage [...]

Surrounded by champions, Oilers blow it again →  January 24, 2010

BufferFriday night we abandoned our normal Shabbat dinner plans and headed down to the Parade of Champions. EPCOR has been teaming up with the Oilers and sponsoring special events featuring Canadian Olympic athletes. Benny and I accompanied LA to meet Olympic kayaker Adam Van Koeverden . Adam is a bit of a celebrity athlete. It doesn’t [...]