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Looking at harm reduction from a Christian perspective

So Calgary has stopped giving out free crack pipes as part of it’s harm reduction strategy. Since 2008, Alberta Health Services had been giving out crack-pipe kits as part of the Safeworks program, an effort to reduce transmittable diseases. The kits contained a glass pipe, mouthpiece and cleaning tool and were handed out in an [...]

What has Warren Kinsella done lately?

The other day in the hospital, Mark complained to me about his Twitter user name.  He doesn’t like @coopermark and said it looked stupid.  I replied to him that others have that form of username.  When pressed who I was referring to, I said Warren Kinsella’s username on Twitter is @kinsellawarren.  Mark asked who Kinsella [...]

August Long Weekend

Wendy blogged about our weekend at the cabin.  The photos can be found here. The highlight of the weekend was falling (being tossed off) the hammock by Oliver.  Here was my view after my eviction.  He has a great future as a bouncer.

A DIY Book Journal

Last year it took Mark forever to get started on his written assignments.  He would just freeze and get all stressed and I would have to calm him down and get him focused on what to do.  I thought we had made some progress but he wanted a book the other day and tried to [...]

Back to basics

Wendy decided to move her site from WordPress.com back to Blogger this weekend.  The move went okay but Blogger is having problems importing new blogs right now.  You can find her at iamwendycooper.blogspot.com from now on.  Her RSS feed remains the same and of course you can find her on Twitter at @wendycooper.

Wendy’s Dark Decade

On Friday Wendy wrote a long post that kind of describes where she is right now in terms of her depression and life right now.  I found it quite uncomfortable to read, partly because of the details she wrote about are often painful ones for both of us. A bunch of you wrote me with questions [...]

Eleven

About the time this goes online, Mark will be awake and opening his birthday gifts.  We bought him an upgraded cellphone, a LG Rumor 2, NFL Training Camp for the Wii, a dopp kit for the lake, and an iTunes card.  He is also getting a cell phone case (but he will want to pick [...]

Mark’s cell phone

Ever since I gave Mark a cell phone for Christmas, some of you have asked how our experiment has gone.  Since it keeps coming up, I’ll post my response here. Mark still has the cell phone which is a good sign.  He has taken really good care of it.  He doesn’t take it to school [...]

Oliver

Mark took this great photo of Oliver the other day at the University of Saskatchewan.  I think it’s my favourite photo ever taken of Oliver.

37 trips around the sun

I turned 37 today.  Not much of a milestone but it was an enjoyable day.  I fell asleep on the sofa last night so I woke up early to the family and a really sore neck.  After some stretching and straining I got up and opened some presents.  Mark gave me a 70-210mm Sigma lens [...]

While I was gone

While I was in Winnipeg, Wendy took the boys to the Mendel Art Gallery and both her and Mark had their cameras with them.  You can see Mark’s post about the Mendel Art Gallery here and see Wendy’s photos here.

PotashCorp WinterShines 2011

Wendy, Mark, Oliver, and I went down to the PotashCorp WinterShines today.  It was beyond chilly.  With the wind it was –35 degrees Celcius which is so cold, it freezes your cheeks so you can’t talk.  We wandered around the Saskatoon Farmer’s Market, drank some hot chocolate and coffee, and enjoyed the ice sculptures.  It [...]

Out for coffee

Oliver and I met up with Gloria, Mark, and Wendy last week for coffee at City Perk.  We were the first two there so we shared a Jones Soda and chatted about Ireland’s debt crisis and Thomas the Tank Engine’s role in it’s recovery.  While the staff was pleasant enough to me, they fell over [...]

Open on Christmas Day?

Wendy has a good post on stores that are opening up on Christmas Day.

Christmas Around Here

I see that both Wendy and Mark have posted about Christmas so I thought I might as well.  I won’t describe the day as Wendy did a great job of doing that but I will ad in that it was a lot of fun to have friends and family around.  For my gifts, Wendy and [...]