Results tagged “memoirs”
Memoirs - Wedding Day (08/08/98) (08/08/08 - 12 Comments)
This seemed a good day to post another brief memoir. Today, 08/08/08, marks the tenth anniversary of the day this happened. It is going to be a scorcher. It is barely 10 in the morning and already the sun is hot. And this church, with no air conditioning, was never our “Plan A.” We had hoped to be married in a church just around the corner, a more modern church and one with modern amenities...
Memoirs - The Best Place (07/27/08 - 12 Comments)
Today I continue posting memoirs (see here for more), little tidbits of my life experience. Chaffeys Locks is one of the most beautiful spots in all of Ontario. Perched between two small lakes that are part of the Rideau Lakes system, it is a historic town founded by William Chaffey in 1816. He established a milling business there, at the swift-flowing rapids that separated Indian Lake from Opinicon Lake. Sadly, in 1827 he died of...
Memoirs - A Weekend Away (1990) (07/20/08 - 9 Comments)
Today I continue posting memoirs (see here for more), little tidbits of my life experience. I can’t believe my parents are making me do this. It is Christmas break and the last thing I want to do is head away from home to spend time with a bunch of people I don’t know. Yet mom and dad have seen fit to send me for a weekend away at a little Reformed Presbyterian Church in Smiths...
Memoirs - Scotland (1988) (07/06/08 - 16 Comments)
Today I continue posting memoirs (see here for more), little tidbits of my life experience. Since the first grade I’ve been a student at Willowdale Christian School and I’ve come to enjoy the place as much as a boy can ever enjoy his school. But here, just a few weeks into seventh grade, I am saying goodbye to my classmates. My father has decided to spend a few years studying in the Free Church of...
Memoirs - A Best Friend (1983) (06/29/08 - 4 Comments)
Several times a day a train rumbles along the tracks that cross our street—Eureka Street—just a few houses up from our home at number thirty-eight. It is a passenger train, one made up of a long string of double-decker cars. In the morning it shuttles commuters from Markham and Unionville into downtown Toronto and in the evening it brings them home again. In the morning it drives with the engine at the front; in the...
Memoirs - Speech Day (1989) (06/27/08 - 6 Comments)
Over the past few weeks I’ve been writing down some memories. It has been a fun process of just thinking about the past and recording some significant events and moments. While I’ll probably post them mostly on weekends, I thought it would be fun to post this one today. I see this as a testament to God’s grace in my life that so much as changed. It is the worst day of my life. Today...