Summer's over! It's back to school time!
So schools, colleges, and universities reopened this week. For us parents with school-going kids, the two-month break from responsibilities like ensuring kids go to bed at a good time, waking them up in the morning and urging them (actually low-key yelling) to get ready, and packing lunches (easily the hardest part for most), was over even before we knew it. This week for us was also the anniversary of our arrival in this city. Exactly 13 years ago on September 1, 2012 we rolled into Winnipeg after leaving Guelph, ON on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2012. On Tuesday, September 4, it was my first day at the University ot Manitoba, the biggest opening day of all of my academic years thus far! The three-day road trip we made driving a 1998 Toyota Corolla and pulling a U-Haul trailer containing a few of our belongings brought us 2,100 Km westward through Northern Ontario. I believe this trip prepared us for the many road trips we were to have much later. Like we do now when we plan a multi...