

Wealthy Relatives: I Have A Few!
Here in Canada, our Lotto Max draw was worth an estimated $65 million dollars, I, along with countless other Canadians, went to bed with dreams of what it would be like to wake up on Wednesday morning to find ourselves financially secure beyond our wildest dreams. The jackpot, which was a record for Canada (unlike other countries, like the US where jackpots regularly go well above this amount), went, but not to me. Somewhere in this vast country a person, or persons, are now


Religion & Rebellion
One of the biggest surprises for me in the journey to find my ancestral past is the number of religious figures and rebels that run throughout my paternal family. My immediate family has never been what I would call religious, although we are spiritual; we just do not partake in any organized religion, although we are Anglican. My maternal grandmother's family was, at one time, quite devoted to the Anglican church, but my grandmother once told me that she gave up going to chu