This past week, Mother Nature unleashed her winter wrath up here in Calgary, Alberta. We’re talking large dumps of snow and temperatures than hovered between -25 and -40 C (that’s -12 to -40 F). And though I’m accustomed to extreme weather conditions being a born and bred Canuck, something REALLY stood out for me during this cold bout: awareness of my own mortality…and the effect my death or a serious injury would have on my young children.
I don’t know if it’s because my 40th birthday lies on the horizon that I’ve become increasingly concerned (paranoid?). It also didn’t help when I heard the story of a woman in her late thirties who hit black ice, flipped her car and today is confined to a wheelchair. Regardless, I realize that there are matters I need to tie up to protect and care for my kids – just in case. Here are few points you, too, may need to tend to: (read more here)













