Sorry for being offline folks… the company I’ve been using to host my photography site at KraikerPhoto.com has been having a string of problems. It resulted in my losing my site and the 6 years of accumulated photographs I had on it. It also took out all of my main email accounts and the name […]
Thoughts
The Idea of Father
The impending arrival of Father’s Day has instilled a mitt-full of thoughts in me, as it generally does every year. It’s not a calendar event I rank very highly, nor do I generally invest much energy in recognizing it. It’s been a long time since I’ve had one (a father), my dad died in 1970 […]
From Buses to Basements
The glow from the past weekend at Busfusion is slowly fading, and I’ve been getting back to things I’d started before I left for Moab. I’ve made some good progress this past week, and that includes time invested today. Steff has been really helpful and together we nailed a bunch of things on my bucket […]
Still in the dark
Social media is an interesting thing. It’s become a great source for getting news quickly and from numerous different perspectives. In the case of #darkTO it’s revealing itself to be a challenge. Reading as friend by friend gets power back while we are still without has an odd taste, a twist of bitter in it […]
#darkTO
Encased in ice, Toronto is struggling to get back to normal. At the height of the “storm” and in the aftermath over 300,000 people were without power. Trees in many of the older parts of the city shattered under the weight, described as 3 time what they would normally bear. Exploring some parts of the […]
Too much on my mind
I should be calling it a day and putting my head down to get some sleep… funny how life can get in the way of things you plan. Things happen, adrenaline kicks in, you go with it. So here I go… My last (terse) blog entry was about writing an article about doping in cycling […]
Ninety-five years…
is a pretty long time ago. November 24, 1918 so make that 95 years plus a day (or however many more have passed between my writing this and your reading it). That’s how long my mother has been exploring this world though, and I’m amazed at how well she’s doing. I think this is the […]
Deeply saddened
Anyone with access to any form of news, anywhere in the world, has heard about Newtown, Connecticut. And we will all continue to hear about it. Until something else really messed up happens. From the New York Times talking out how people are reacting to the thought of “Holiday Joy” now, through the list of […]
Packed, ready to hit the Road
I am just finishing my packing, running a little behind so this will be a short post, I’ll likely add more tonight.I covered the first Ontario Cup MTB race of the year yesterday, at Mansfield ON, for Pedal Magazine and expect the photos will be up some time today. Andrea had a great day and […]
Sunshine and Snow
I wonder what the race earlier today would have been like if this arrived earlier… I hope it will turn to rain, there’s still a lot of salt on the roads. And yes, I’ve seen the highlights reel from Flanders… wow.