Musings about life…
So this retirement thing is finally kicking in. It’s been a bit of a bumpy road due to having to fight off the cancer I was diagnosed with at 63 but so far, after surgery, radiation and two years…
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The First Step in Creating a New Life is to Get Rid of Everything you Don’t Want. Long before my cancer diagnosis, I worked to declutter my part of our lives. It’s important to me emotionally. It makes me…
I’ve struggled with sharing this for quite a while now but feel sharing it may be cathartic for me. I feel like I’ve been hiding it from most of my friends so here goes… In May of 2019, Yim…
Memorial to my sister, Donna. California, 2013. — Hello everyone. My name is Steve Roper. Donna was my little sister. And I was lucky enough to know her longer than anyone else here… I am here today to thank…
I was very unhappy at being back in Montreal after leaving Belize. We had bought ourselves a nice two story rooftop condo right on Lake St. Louis but in January of 2006, I remember the weather falling below 0…
We had told the same story 500 times by now… How had we ended up running a five star resort in Belize was always the question. So one night, I winked at Yim and started off down the plot…
We liked to watch the sun rise. I used to get up and stand by the Ocean’s Edge and watch the day break with a nice pink glow over the horizon. This one morning, Yim decided she would come…
We finally arrived in Maya Beach after our 17 day road trip from Victoria. It was going to be the first night we could stay in our little house by the beach and there it was, with its roof…
Our houses were designed as a box with a top basically. A 24 foot by 24 foot square box which was to be delivered to the property on the back of a flatbed truck and hauled through the Maya…
In September 2000, Yim and I moved to Vancouver Island. I had been headhunted by an advertising agency called Copeland Communications and offered a considerable increase (+25%) in salary over what Chrysler/BBDO had just offered me, for whom I…
