Retrospective: 2024 Year in Review (By the Numbers)
I feel like I say this every December, but 2024 has been quite the year. It has been a mix of the...
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Author: Michael Kwan
Dads Go Wild 2024 at Manning Park Resort
What started as meeting some random guys I met on the internet in the middle of the woods with no...
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Summer Reading List: 6 Books I’ve Read Recently and Recommend
At the risk of sounding cliche, reading is fundamental. Whether it’s a paperback, hardcover,...
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Mexican Riviera Cruise Aboard the Carnival Miracle
After basically not leaving our province for four years (for obvious reasons), we finally took a...
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Top 16 TV Sitcom Dads From the 1990s (As Voted By You!)
Growing up in the ’80s and ’90s, I watched a lot of sitcoms. The TGIF lineup on ABC...
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Five Dads Go Wild 2024: Sooke Edition
Last month, we embarked on a Five Dads Go Wild adventure on Vancouver Island. Except, two of the...
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A Return to Guiding Words for 2024
For the last few years, I’ve been setting “goals” of varying specificity for my...
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A Year By the Numbers (2023 Review)
What gets measured gets done. Or is that what gets measured get managed? In any case, I’m a...
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Gifted With Mediocrity
It will never be enough, will it? As a child, I experienced several instances where I was made to...
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My Report Card: 2023 Goals and How They Went
I know. We’ve still got a whole month and a bit to go in 2023. There’s still, like, 10...
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Hi, I'm Michael. By day, I'm a writer and editor. By night, I'm still a writer and editor. I'm also an engaged work-at-home dad, a voracious foodie, an avid traveler, and a thinker who thinks he might be thinking too much. Beyond the Rhetoric is a reflection of my eclectic life, fueled by caffeine and Wi-Fi.
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