It's been a busy end of summer! We took a 3600km road trip through Northern Ontario, with stops in Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie and Thunder Bay. Got to speak in two churches about our new work with HCJB Global Canada, and built a website for a third. It was a little surreal to walk through the front door of First Baptist in the Sault and realize that my Dad was the same age that I am now when our family moved there in 1981. Lot's of good memories, though, and it was good to reconnect with old friends. Had a great time with the Pipers in Thunder Bay, too. (you can see a few pics here.)

I shot some video for a film launch event during the Toronto International Film Festival last week, and this week I've been helping a company in Ohio get ready for a trade show in Vegas in a few weeks. Shooting video for their big screen displays.

We've been enjoying representing HCJB, spending a week up at Elim Lodge (Peterborough) and then the Northern Tour. I'll be heading to Quebec and New Brunswick with Brian Seeley from Oct.4-13, and then it's off to Costa Rica from the 14th to the 25th to film another mini-documentary. Hope to get to Ireland in November to film the first Christian radio station granted a license there in Cork. Pretty exciting!

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Took the girls to Riverside Park for a dinner picnic and splash. As an
added bonus I'm blogging while we're doing it!

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Headed off for a weekend of camping (if you can call it that) with my cousin Shannon and his family up near Arthur. It's only an hour or so away, so we won't get killed fueling the beast. It is a nice beast, though, courtesy of our new best friends the Bowmans! Will post some more pics after we get back Sunday night.

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Madeline decided to spell her shortened name "Maddie". Thought it looked cuter ;-) Who am I to disagree?

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An interesting address to the TED conference.

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I love reading. Always have, for as long as I can remember. In fact Lynn wanted me to take a picture of both of girls sitting on the couch reading the other day. They both love to read, especially Maddy. She is voracious. And not just the fluffy stuff most kids her age read. Her favorite book right now is the Girls Book of Verse and she'll proudly tell you how far into Genesis she has read.

My Mom thinks my life should be committed to paper one of these days. I'm not so sure. I've done some interesting things, and people seem to enjoy hearing my stories, but is it worth publishing? Give me another ten years and I'll let you know. I have discovered that the earlier chapters of my life have shaped the ones yet to be written. Like a good novelist, I'm trying to envision the end so that the chapters from here on out make sense. I'm storyboarding my life. Wish I had started sooner.

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Another great performance... love this guy.

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