CFL Beat – [DOOR FLIES OPEN]

CFL Beat: Week 14

With LaboUr Day falling late in the calendar this year, most of my schoolteacher colleagues grumbled about going back to work already – something…

I’m starting parental leave on Monday – still feels a bit surreal to me. In a parallel universe, this would mean sticking the kid…

After two weeks away, I am at last back in Canada once more, and I think that while this was a very successful trip…

Hello from the IJsselmeer! No, that’s not a typo – the Dutch language uses the letters IJ as a digraph character in the same…

It’s a beautiful beach week in the Netherlands as Maestro’s family orchestra enjoys some time on the North Sea. This week we’re hanging out…

The boy’s top teeth have finally erupted, and the two weeks of disrupted sleep appear to be easing once again! It’s been incredibly difficult…

We’ve officially hit the one-third mark of the 2026 regular season. I have no doubt that things are going to turn yet again, particularly…

With two more days of in-person classes left to go for this term of grad school, I just have another 48 hours left until…

Well, I knew grad school was going to be brutal, but at least the people here are nice. Suffering in a cohort certainly beats…

Boy howdy, is Canada ever a big country. I was reminded of this once again as we took the boy – now aged seven…