My wife’s strange obsession is searching real estate listings even when we’re not looking for a home. On the odd occasion that can be a blessing — her early scouring of Nova Scotia listings on viewpoint.ca alerted us to the fact that property prices were rising everywhere — great for selling our home in North…
Finding a lighthouse in Nova Scotia should be pretty straightforward — after all, lighthouses are MADE to be seen. But for a while, the Victoria Beach lighthouse kept us in the dark. After packing to move, driving to Nova Scotia and being confined in quarantine, and getting key things set up in our new home…
It’s one thing to move to Canada. It’s quite another to set yourself up to LIVE here. Here’s a look at the must-do tasks to do when you arrive. At the border into Nova Scotia, the agents had given us strict instructions: drive from the border directly to our place of quarantine, no side trips,…
When I moved to the US from Canada 25 years ago, my employer Northern Telecom took care of all the immigration details. That made it relatively easy. This time, we were on our way to live in Nova Scotia and it was all up to us. There were a number of things we needed to…
When I first told my director at Red Hat that we were planning to move to Nova Scotia in Canada from North Carolina, her first reaction was “Dude, do you ever stay planted!!?” It was not an unreasonable question — since starting at Red Hat in 2015, she’d seen Jackie and I move four times!…
For those of you who are my age, do you ever feel that life is passing you by? I’ve felt that; life just seems to have flashed by so quickly. It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was in my 20s. The truth is I’d just forgotten many of the details of my life….
My father was a newspaper photographer for many years when we lived in Scotland. One day he was assigned to cover the demonstration of the new Aston Martin at a track near Glasgow. The driver that would take them around that day? F1 star Peter Collins… Collins, his friend Mike Hawthorn, Tony Brooks, and the…
From the file: “you did WHAT when you were young…??” Imagine for a minute that you’re five years old again. There’s a kid-size cabinet in front of you. If you stick your feet into it, you can look in the top and see the bones in your feet and watch them move as you…
In 1970, I was a fourteen-year-old who’d just been bitten by the car racing bug. When my new friend, David Sampson, took his Scalextric set out of it’s box — that was it. I was hooked. My Dad was a former news photographer and when he started taking me to car races, he couldn’t resist…
It was like meeting an old acquaintance you hadn’t seen in a long time: someone who reminds you of a different time and place and brings a smile to your face and warmth to your heart. It was among my late mother’s last possessions and I recognized it as soon as I saw it…