The House of Broken Loves - 6 years later

My five month ordeal in The House of Broken Loves (photo) - or better known as Family Court - came to an end six years ago today.

Some of the people who contributed to bringing it to an end were:

Michelle Ramsay-Borg
Michelle Ramsay
J. Gilles Boulais
G. Blaze
Dozens of Duty Counsels at 311 Jarvis
The patient and helpful folks at the Clerk Window of 311 Jarvis St.
The helpful staff at the Bora Laskin Law Library

I hope the following chronological list (March to August) of my postings is helpful for any of you who find themselves in the unenviable position of having to attend Family Court.

The House of Broken Loves 
House of Broken Loves - Part II
House of Broken Loves - Part 3
House of Broken Loves - Part 4 - Invitation
House of Broken Loves - Part 5
Please Attend My Court Appearance
My Day in Family Court is Tomorrow
Squashed!
Forms, Forms, and more Forms
All About (Dispute) Mediation
No Talking! - House of Broken Loves
Recusing a Judge
The Curse of 'Lawyering' up
Two Motions Rejected - Two New Motions Filed
Mother May I?
Family Court 101 - for Novices 
It's Over - We've reached a Settlement

And finally.... an interesting comment from one of my readers....

Maryann Petri is the ERIN BROCKOVICH of family court

Hello Blogsphere Folks:

Hope you are all well. 

If you get the opportunity, would you please share my crowdfund campaign on your network? I just optioned the film and TV rights to non-custodial mother Maryann Petri, the Erin Brockovich of family court. Maryann has been fighting the corrupt family court system for nearly a decade. We are raising development money for a trailer, business plan and script development. 

Many thanks. ... James 

https://ca.gofundme.com/f/custody-denied

Happy Pi Day!

Pi Day is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant π (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 which makes perfect sense as the first three significant digits of π are 3,1,4 (e.g. March 14)

According to the website Angio, Pi (π) is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. It doesn't matter how big or small the circle is - the ratio stays the same. Properties like this that stay the same when you change other attributes are called constants. Because it's so easily observed (you can measure it with a piece of string!),

Pi has been popular for centuries, thanks to Archimedes of Syracuse (289-212 BC) who first calculate Pi.

Sooooo!.... Let us set aside some time today to celebrate everything that is constant - life, death, taxes, sunrises, sunsets, good friends, bad friends, love, hate, forgiveness and revenge.

Family Court and me

My five month ordeal in The House of Broken Loves (photo) - or better known as Family Court - came to an end five years ago today.

Some of the people who contributed to bringing it to an end were:

Michelle Ramsay-Borg
Michelle Ramsay
J. Gilles Boulais
G. Blaze
Dozens of Duty Counsels at 311 Jarvis
The patient and helpful folks at the Clerk Window of 311 Jarvis St.
The helpful staff at the Bora Laskin Law Library

I hope the following chronological list (March to August) of my postings is helpful for any of you who find themselves in the unenviable position of having to attend Family Court.

The House of Broken Loves 
House of Broken Loves - Part II
House of Broken Loves - Part 3
House of Broken Loves - Part 4 - Invitation
House of Broken Loves - Part 5
Please Attend My Court Appearance
My Day in Family Court is Tomorrow
Squashed!
Forms, Forms, and more Forms
All About (Dispute) Mediation
No Talking! - House of Broken Loves
Recusing a Judge
The Curse of 'Lawyering' up
Two Motions Rejected - Two New Motions Filed
Mother May I?
Family Court 101 - for Novices 
It's Over - We've reached a Settlement

And finally.... an interesting comment from one of my readers....

Happy Birthday Mila Ramsay

If this video doesn't play please click HERE for the YouTube version

A painful reminder from Face Book

My lovely grandchildren.... it’s been 6 years but I haven’t given up hope of hugging them again someday.

Happy Thanksgiving Zyg and Mila Ramsay

Dear Zyg and Mila:

It has now been 1826  days since I last saw your lovely faces and 56 months since she succeeded in cutting me off from you.

It is your country's Thanksgiving, but it is me who is thankful that the two of you came into my life. Don't forget that not a day passes that Grandfather doesn't think of you and miss you.

Love you both lots and lots,

Your Grandfather (A.G.)

The Neanderthals had the right idea

Our ancestors healed their sick family members with herbal medicine and love.

Read the story on CBC News

Love you Zyg Ramsay

Happy Birthday Zyg... your grandfather ("A.G.") hopes you have a lovely day... misses you every day... loves you lots and lots.

If this video doesn't play then please click HERE for the YouTube version

Happy Grandparent's Day to all the grandparents of the world!

"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children."

.... Alex Haley, author

Read more about Grand Parent's Day

Michelle Ramsay vs. Me - My day in Family Court four years later

My five month ordeal in The House of Broken Loves (photo) - or better known as Family Court - came to an end three years ago today.

Some of the people who contributed to bringing it to an end were:

Michelle Ramsay-Borg
Michelle Ramsay
J. Gilles Boulais
G. Blaze
Dozens of Duty Counsels at 311 Jarvis
The patient and helpful folks at the Clerk Window of 311 Jarvis St.
The helpful staff at the Bora Laskin Law Library

I hope the following chronological list (March to August) of my postings is helpful for any of you who find themselves in the unenviable position of having to attend Family Court.

The House of Broken Loves
House of Broken Loves - Part II
House of Broken Loves - Part 3
House of Broken Loves - Part 4 - Invitation
House of Broken Loves - Part 5
Please Attend My Court Appearance
My Day in Family Court is Tomorrow
Squashed!
Forms, Forms, and more Forms
All About (Dispute) Mediation
No Talking! - House of Broken Loves
Recusing a Judge
The Curse of 'Lawyering' up
Two Motions Rejected - Two New Motions Filed
Mother May I?
Family Court 101 - for Novices
It's Over - We've reached a Settlement

And finally.... an interesting comment from one of my readers....

How to complete a marathon with one broken foot

I wouldn't have begun training for my half-marathon if I had known that three weeks later some idiot driving a four thousand pound SUV was going to run over my foot.

Yes, I was in the crosswalk. Yes, I had the 'walk' indicator. Yes, he blew through the red light. And yes it hurt.

My training was interrupted two and a half months when the Fracture Clinic doctor finally allowed me remove the clumsy walking cast . "May I resume my marathon training?" I asked, to which he replied with a snicker, "Sure, but it's gonna hurt." He was right. Five months after the SUV crushed my foot leaving me with 'significant soft tissue damage' and a 3m break of my fifth manner tarsal. The darn thing still hurts with every step. Some days more than others.

Keeping in mind that successfully completion of a marathon is 20% mental effort and 80% physical, how did I manage to the physical effort necessary to train and complete my broken foot marathon? Well, basically:

• Healthy eating (many thanks to my wife)
•  Ice packs
• Epsom salt baths
• 15 training walks of 2 1/2 hours each
•  Twice weekly core and weight training
•  The occasional Advil
• Calcium supplements (to speed the mending of my broken bone)
• Physio twice a week
• and a genetically endowed stubborn streak

How did I manage the 20% mental effort necessary? Well, that list is far shorter: I simply pinned a photo of my lovely grandchildren, Zyg and Mila Ramsay to the front of my jacket and kept walking until one of the race marshals at the finish line blocked my path and told me I could stop now.

I heartily encourage every one to enter a marathon. A simple Google search will pull up dozens of marathon training programs - some as short as three months, some lasting a year. Or join a walking club. Or sign up for one of your local running store's training sessions. You may want to start off with 5k marathon then work you way up to 'the big guy'. Yes, yes - I know that everyone of us can list a million excuses for not exercising but the fact is you only have one body so 'use it or lose it'.

So starting tomorrow I'm going to allow my 72 year-old body a five day vacation before I begin training for my next  marathon - this one, double the distance.

Happy marathoning and watch out for SUVs.

Happy New Year Zyg Ramsay and Mila Ramsay

Happy New Year Zyg and Mila

Hope you have a happy and healthy 2018

Love you a lot..... Grandfather (A.G.)

(if this video doesn't play please click HERE

Happy Birthday Zyg Ramsay

Love you a lot, miss you terribly, think about you and Mila every day

If this video doesn't play, please click HERE for the YouTube version, thanks.

Happy Grandparent's Day to all Grandparents

"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children."

.... Alex Haley, author 

Read more about Grand Parent's Day

My day in court - Michelle Ramsay vs Me - three years later

My five month ordeal in The House of Broken Loves (photo) - or better known as Family Court - came to an end three years ago today.

Some of the people who contributed to bringing it to an end were:

Michelle Ramsay-Borg
Michelle Ramsay
Michelle Boulais
J. Gilles Boulais
G. Blaze
Dozens of Duty Counsels at 311 Jarvis
The patient and helpful folks at the Clerk Window of 311 Jarvis St.
The helpful staff at the Bora Laskin Law Library

I hope the following chronological list (March to August) of my postings is helpful for any of you who find themselves in the unenviable position of having to attend Family Court.

The House of Broken Loves
House of Broken Loves - Part II
House of Broken Loves - Part 3
House of Broken Loves - Part 4 - Invitation
House of Broken Loves - Part 5
Please Attend My Court Appearance
My Day in Family Court is Tomorrow
Squashed!
Forms, Forms, and more Forms
All About (Dispute) Mediation
No Talking! - House of Broken Loves
Recusing a Judge
The Curse of 'Lawyering' up
Two Motions Rejected - Two New Motions Filed
Mother May I?
Family Court 101 - for Novices
It's Over - We've reached a Settlement

And finally.... an interesting comment from one of my readers....

March 6th has come again Zyg and Mila Ramsay

If this doesn't play please check out it out on YOUTUBE

Happy New Years Zyg Ramsay and Mila Ramsay

Happy New Year Zyg and Mila

Hope you have a happy and healthy 2017

Love you a lot..... Grandfather (A.G.)

(if this video doesn't play please click HERE

Happy Thanksgiving Zyg Ramsay and Mila Ramsay

Happy (American) Thanksgiving Zyg and Mila.

Dear Zyg and Mila:

It has now been 1096 days since I last saw your lovely faces and 34 months since she succeeded in cutting me off from you.

It is your country's Thanksgiving, but it is me who is thankful that the two of you came into my life. Don't forget that not a day passes that Grandfather doesn't think of you and miss you.

Love you both lots and lots,

Your Grandfather (A.G.)

Happy Grandparent's Day to all us Grandparents

"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children."

.... Alex Haley, author 

Read more about Grand Parent's Day