Life Stories

These stories are divided into 2 sections.

  1. Auto-biographical (comedy and lighthearted)
  2. Auto-biographical (non-comedy and heavy).

Auto-biographical (comedy and lighthearted)

Sailing into Newfoundland on a Warship

Kensington Market Music Scene 2011-14ish ce and the Tragically Hip Guitar Off

High Art at the Dancers and the Lesbian Art Dealers

The Boston Red Sox Break the Curse

The Edmonton Baseball League (formerly the Edmonton Sandlot baseball experience) and Mosquitoes

First it said multiple players, then it was one, then it was none and it was all an oops.
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The Edmonton Elks Break the Slump

Behind the scenes with the 1996ce WWF Locker Room

Forgot to mention how kind Psycho Sid was to us. And that the booze was also used as a painkiller

New Orleans

Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds at the Wang Theatre and a myriad of Dave Matthews Band lore and stories

The Edmonton Oilers, The Winnipeg Jets, and Gary Bettman and Wayne Gretzky (allegedly) trying to blow up the moon. (Part 1 pre game. Part 2 post.)

May the Fourth!

The Canada Winter Games National Championship and the McNary / Crosby rivalry

The Atlanta Airport / New York Marathon / Providence (Brown) and Boston / Brown, Washington trip

Part 1: Atlanta Airport and NYC
Part 2 : Providence and Boston
Part 3 Washington (note: while part of this travel section, this audio contains very serious and very sad discussion and should be considered as part of the second section of stories on this page below. I need to make a correction re the background behind the gravestone in Arlington)

An Ode to my friend Kurt

A Vegas Marathon

The “High” Holidays, the reverse Bike Theft, and other Toronto stories

Montreal

The Las Angeles Raccoon and Playing Guitar to a Bear in the Wild.

The trip to the land travel route between Africa and Europe (and elsewhere)

Funny Stories with my Grandpa

Brown 04-08ce

Auto-biographical (non-comedy and heavy)

The EA Strike and Volunteering

Boyle Street and the Petition for my Murdered Friend Rose

“Edmonton Baseball League” Matter

I got Smittied in Spruce Grove, basically.

Volunteering in South Africa and youth teaching experiences.

The Translation and the misunderstanding.

Helping in the Jersey v Higgins case (otherwise known as the case about the death of the Gaudreau Brothers)

The Cat in the Hot Car

The Deer, the Mountie, the Hostel, New Orleans volunteering, and living in Montreal.

The night sleeping in the Montreal Subway and the Ottawa adventure

Writing a Prisoner

Activism after “Hockey Canada Scandal” verdict July 2025ce

The Girl From The North Country

Defending a Woman with my Body outside a clinic.

Clancy gets hit by a car

Hockey, choosing to not go pro, and my hockey experience at Brown University

Adventures in being not straight (some comedy)

The Family

Primer:

Part 1: “Don’t Be a Fag”

Part 2: The Firepit

Part 3: Boneheads

Part 4: Who Does That?

Part 5: Dogs and Truck Guys and Nannies and Laying Down The Law

Part 6: “Not That Smart”

Part 7: The Elected Thunderbirdess