Family

Announcing Apraila Murkha

Samuel Benoit

1 April 2013

In March 2011 I was living in Panchgani, India doing some work with the Baha’i Academy. At that same time my mother was doing community development work with the Baha’is of Slovenia and my dad and sister were back home in Ottawa. Just before going to bed on 30 March I send my family a…

Family, Travel

2011, Apraila, April Fool’s, April Fools Day, consent for marriage, india, joke, Maharashra, Murkha, Nakali, Panchgani, prank, pranking parents, Table land, tableland, Wendy James
Benoit-James-Seleger family GIF

Samuel Benoit

19 September 2012

I just moved down to San Francisco for grad school and before I left Ottawa in the wee hours of Sunday morning my family got together for a photo shoot and dinne at a nearby South Indian restaurant. My mom and dad have been pestering me to email them the photos from shoot, so instead…

Family, GIFs

Ben, Ben Seleger, Benjamin, Benjamin Seleger, Benoit, Bernard, Bernard Benoit, Carmel, Carmel Seleger, Dona Seleger, Family, Fanfan, Fanfan Seleger, GIF, James, Julie, Julie Benoit, Julie Seleger, Ottawa, Samuel Benoit, Seleger, Wendy, Wendy James
Clip from the Benny Show featuring Carmel

Samuel Benoit

26 March 2012

This is something I made a couple weeks ago with my niece and nephew to invite their friends to attend my niece Carmel’s upcoming second birthday party.

Family, Video

2012, Benjamin, Carmel, Video
Holding back the alien vampire-zombies on Blue Team One: The Toronto Regional Baha’i Conference

Samuel Benoit

23 January 2009

Two weeks before Toronto’s Regional Baha’i Conference (one of 41 across the world) , I received an e-mail from Albert Wong asking if I would be a member of the security team, I agreed, and two weeks later I found myself in a meeting room in at a Toronto hotel on the eve of the…

Baha’i Community Life, Events, Family, Photos

Bahai, Keith Bartlett, Regional Con, Regional Conference, Ryan Lash, Toronto, vampire-zombies, World Congress
B W Seleger et al.

Samuel Benoit

15 March 2008

Over the past month my new nephew has been making the rounds, winning the hearts all those who have the chance to meet him with relaxed, dynamic personality. Here are some recent pictures of my recent nephew with members of his family, he’s sleeping in most of them: With mother/With father With grandmother/With grandfather With…

Family

Ben, Benjamin, Family
My ridiculous 2004 fasting article

Samuel Benoit

13 March 2008

The Baha’i world is now on day twelve of the nineteen day fast. The one nineteenth of the year when we abstain from food and liquids while the sun is up. The other eighteen nineteenths are known to me as my love affair with lunch, arguably one of the three most important meals of the…

Baha’i Community Life, Family, Photos, Travel

2004, Bahai, Fast, Fasting, Thailand, Yasothon
The Life of Benjamin William Seleger

Samuel Benoit

14 February 2008

It will always be easy for my family to remember when Julie and Fanfan announced to us that they were expecting. It was Father’s Day and Julie and Fanfan invited our parents over for dinner. As we were in the living room after dinner Julie announced that she and Fanfan had a Father’s Day gift…

Family

family Benjamin Fanfan Julie Baba