Last summer I was asked to join a “quality audit” team that had been created by the Commonwealth of Learning and contracted by the University of South Africa (UNISA) to […]
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Our Mexican Adventures – Winterbuster Tr
After a brutal January and February in Edmonton, Sue and I were ready for a Winterbuster trip to Mexico. Our first destination was the Town of San Miguel d’Allenda, famous […]
Visit to University of South Africa (UNI...
This is my second and final post on my winter-buster visit to Open Universidat Aberta in Portugal and my visit last week to the University of South Africa (UniSA). Although […]
Reflections from Lisbon, 2019
Life is full or irony. I’m reflecting on a number of these ironies here on my last night in Lisbon. I’m also posting this on both my blog and Facebook […]
Hiking the Austrian Alps with the Bros
The pack is loaded, done with 3 weeks of walking the Edmonton River Valley daily, wondering what else I should be worried about and then the plane takes off and […]
Our Guatemalan Adventure
Our long time friends Ted and Joanne Koopmans invited us to come along and house-sit a house that a friend of theirs had made available for 4 weeks in February. […]
Detailed account and Lessons from a Seni...
During September 2017, my brothers Dennis and Craig, and I (-all over 65 years old) spent 10 days hiking on the Tour de Mt. Blanc (TMB). The Mount Blanc Massif […]
Final days in China
I’ve had a great time here in Wuxi, learned lots, met new friends and hopefully helped a class of grad students enlarge their research perspective using design-based research. I also […]
A trip to Nanjing
Last weekend I accepted an invitation to visit and present a talk at the Jiangsu Open University in Nanjing. Nanjing is one of China’s larger cities strategically located on the […]
An encounter with the Chinese health sys...
You can tell when a blogger is getting old by the percentage of their posts relating to health issues- and especially their own. This is one of that genre. About […]