In May I reminisced about my childhood heroes… today you get to read about my top five childhood crushes (lucky you).
5. The Abba girls

I confess my very first childhood crush was on Agnetha and Anni-frid. My siblings were all teenagers when Abba-mania came to the Drake household (late 70s). I was four years old. Ahhhh young love.
4. Daisy DukeI’m sure [...]

Seeing isn’t believing anymore. The future is now and the future is scary.
By the way… Emily is not real. She is a computer generated image.
Read more here.

With the Olympics almost at an end, and in light of other recent events, I thought it was a good time to post a link to the recent renewalyouth study: ‘The Race’.
It’s important to remember that the race of life is not a sprint, it’s a marathon, and it’s not how we start the race that matters, it’s how we [...]

I had a great day today, until I heard some sad news about someone. Bad news is like a wet blanket… it cannot be easily shaken. It leaves you feeling really down (understatement of the year). Paisley Jade (wife) was on the bed browsing facebook (as she does). I snuggled up next to her (as I do). Hold up, don’t [...]

The post title says it all.
Last week a body of Bigfoot was found, this week it was discovered to be a hoax. Bummer, I was hoping it was real. A lot of people are disappointed right about now. (Especially the guy who paid $50,000 for the body
Read the Foxnews article here.

I take my hat off to every stay-at-home mother out there. You girls are legends!
Paisley Jade (that’s my wife) has been in bed with a very bad flu for the last few days, so I’ve taken a few sick days to cover for her. We have four kids, who need fequent feeding, washing, and cleaning up after… especially our [...]

Some of my friends write deep-meaningful-daily-devotional-awe-inspiring posts. I write about stuff like sneakers.

Chuck Taylors are undeniably the best shoes in the world.

My first pair (classic black low-cuts), have been attached to my feet almost every day for a year. I bought them on special for $39 at the Warehouse. As I need to feed 6 mouths, and pay off [...]

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Still from the famous Patterson film
I’ve always been interested in Bigfoot (thanks to the various ‘unsolved mysteries’ books on the bookshelf growing up).
It is with some excitement that I read that a body of Bigfoot has apparently been found. News.com.au states:

Two US professional Bigfoot hunters claim to have found a body of the legendary creature and will present [...]