The past few weeks have been crazy. The day job has pretty much consumed all of my spare time, due largely to rising water. I went to Fargo, North Dakota to watch people fill sandbags in anticipation of a flooding disaster. I was inspired by the sense of community that blossomed through the anxiety of losing homes. I followed that nervous urgency north, to smaller communities in southern Manitoba that had seen water steal their towns from them 12 years ago. I met people who were determined to never let that happen again. And then, days later, a weird natural phenomenon of jamming river ice forced that water over roads and into homes north of Winnipeg.

Then I went to Vancouver for something totally unrelated but important to me. I sat in on meetings about how to improve TV journalism to better include the diverse faces that make up Canada today. It was enlightening and I felt very fortunate to sit in on such discussions with so many talented people. I just hope things will change now. TV news does a pretty bad job of reflecting the people that make up this country and hopefully that’ll change sooner than later.

From there it was back to the Prairies where the water was high and the clock was ticking. And that’s where we are today. In a nutshell, that’s why I haven’t updated the blog in a while. And I’ll have to neglect it for another couple of weeks, because I’m heading to the land of Maya. I’m going to Guatemala for a bit of a vacation. It’s been a while since I’ve taken a trip like that and I’m pretty damn stoked.

Since I won’t be here for a while, you’ll notice a little box on the right hand side near the bottom there. That’s my twitter feed. If you wanna know what I’m up to while in Central America, just stay tuned to that. A lot of people have different opinions of twitter, but as a professional and passionate communicator, I think it’s a fantastic tool in this ever-closing digital world. And to think, I used to write letters!

So watch that, and come back in a few weeks. I’ll post pics and share my experiences of being in a land that was brutally raped by colonizers, but today has one of the strongest indigenous cultures in the world.