UP-CLOSE …and Personal

This is where I journal about my personal experiences and reflect on life’s adventurous journey.

Yup! It’s been a couple months since I’ve written in here. Spent last Thanksgiving in Vancouver… then 5 weeks in Cancun, Mexico… then 2 weeks back in Vancouver for Christmas/New Years… then off to Los Angeles for a month. Next thing I know, it’s mid February already! Time flies!

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After a few years in Vancouver, I noticed some significant differences in Canadians vs. Americans. I’ve lived in cities like Denver, Phoenix, Santa Barbara and San Diego. And I grew up in Los Angeles – lived there for the better part of 30 years. LA is a big city, something like 18 million strong. Compare [...]

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Going to work because you choose to, and not because you have to, is a luxury everyone deserves to enjoy. Stunts is exactly one of those things that blesses my life. When you follow your bliss, your work becomes play.

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…continued from the last post. So after a long series of flashbacks of the last 30 months, here we are. Present day – 3/3/09 So here I was on my unexpected road trip to LA. Considering what had happened I was actually very chipper and almost amused at the whole situation. I was driving the [...]

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Going through some site maintenance for everyone. We’ll have improved navigation and my stunt posts will be moved to my stunt blog.

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So here we are. A series of posts that cover the epiphany I had during a 30 hour drive that symbolized the culmination of 30 months. It all started with Trouble At The Canadian Border. That led to A Road Trip To Epiphany. Then a look into A Snapshot Of My Life In 2006. Followed by My Wife Getting [...]

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…3 of us were living like sardines in a studio apartment in Vancouver. It was a humble downgrade coming from a 3 story, 4 bedroom condo in Los Angeles. Vancouver is a beautiful city, but not when you’re forced to relocate. Not at first anyway.

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It was time for me to go to LA and pack up everything. The day was July 3, 2006. My 30th birthday and I was on the road again, by myself on a 1600 mile trip to reflect. Not exactly a happy birthday. My life suddenly changed drastically.

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A couple years later I found out that the physical exam I took was something I hesitate to even journal. Let’s just say the doctor was ‘far too thorough’ in his examination…

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So we left Vancouver and headed to the U.S. border to go home to LA. When we arrived at the border we were asked to pull over for some reason and step inside for further questioning. They pulled Lisa aside to interrogate her …for 6 hours!!

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In order to understand the epiphany I had, we need to go back in time. Flashback to 2006… I suddenly went from a bachelor in debt to financially supporting a Canadian wife and teenage boy.

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Picking up from the last post… …here I was, on a forced road trip to Los Angeles. I had just enough in the bank to cover gas and food for the trip. As a new Canadian immigrant I had no credit, so I had recently gotten a prepaid credit card. That was my only life line [...]

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The first part of a personal journal of a 30 hour drive that symbolized the culmination of the last 30 months.

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10 tips for a happy marriage. About every 5 years or so, they dynamics of a relationship tends to evolve. I’ve learned some important Do’s and Do Not’s.

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Stunt Interview and workshop while at the Gulf Islands Film and Television School in British Columbia.

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As seen on Oprah, Dr. Phil’s personality test. Click here to take the full test.

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