I’m bad at hiking. I’ve discovered this over time and people who love me have helped me come to terms with it. There’s been an intervention and it’s time that...
Tag - Faith
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
Kids need Neighbours
Parenting is humbling work. We love our children deeply, we discipline them, we coach them, we teach them, and we pray for them. We hope they turn out well...
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
Kids need Neighbours
Parenting is humbling work. We love our children deeply, we discipline them, we coach them, we teach them, and we pray for them. We hope they turn out well...
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
Beauty In Our Wake
Several years ago my wife and I moved to Chestermere and we moved into a home that was one of the first in a new housing development. It was dusty and the...
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
Making Leaders
There are thousands of new leadership books making their way onto bookstore shelves every year. Whether they are praising or critiquing the leadership of...
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
The Need for Speed and Fun
Like most good ideas, it started as a dream on a whim: gather kids, build some cars together, and see how far they will go down a pathway in the park. I was...
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
Disappointed
I’ve heard it said that the distance between what you expected, and what you experienced, is called anger. The wider the gap, the greater the anger...
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
Creative Conversations
This summer we went on a long ten hour car trip with our family. My five year old daughter loved playing ‘eye-spy,’ but after a few hours ‘eye-spy’...
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
Favourite Places
I recently took some friends to Reader Rock Garden in Calgary. It’s a hidden gem in the city and too few people know about it. Tucked in a forest of old...
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
Fix it
I was working under my older model Ford truck changing out a broken piece when my neighbour stopped by. “I hear you might not know what you’re...