EDITOR'S NOTES

Eating dinner as a family every night has always been a high priority in my house, and sharing meals together has led to some fascinating dinner table conversations. Since I moved back home last May, we have covered a plethora of topics at suppertime.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been involved in a project that has me reviewing every article we’ve ever published in our Canadian edition. In a little over 10 years, the list totals 4,108 articles … and counting, as we’ve just added more with this issue.

Once, on a family vacation when I was in high school, I went to my aunt’s hotel room to meet her for a walk. She had just given birth to her first child, and the trip was the first time my family had met the new baby.

At some point in our lives, someone has reminded us to choose our words wisely. Every single one of us has probably said something we wish we could take back. I know I have.

It’s been one year since the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way in which we live and work each day. Like many other moments in history, the “where were you when” will be forever engrained in my memory. I, and several hundred other people, was at the Western Canadian Dairy Seminar in Red Deer, Alberta.

As my parents work on retiring from the daily demands of dairying, I like to invite them south (by about 40 minutes) to my hobby farm where things naturally operate at a slower pace.