Gratitudes
1. Pets: Dogs, cats, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians – you name it, they are our companions in life. Yes, there are some who equate pets with slavery, that animals in this position are being...
View ArticleSigns of Getting Older #16: I’d like a word with the Editor
One of my many flaws is an inability to say no to a book that looks interesting. It is probably founded in those days now faded to sepia when I had time to read. Back in the day when it … Continue...
View ArticleThe Devil eats Kibble?
There are different stages of fear. When I was 10 I stood on the tower platform at a pool looking down. The water was clear and nearly invisible. The fear of what my sister would call me if I turned …...
View ArticleSigns of Getting Older #17: Lines in the shifting sands
It is not unusual to feel that you always are in the slowest line at the grocery check out or the bank or just about anywhere we are made to line up. We have all felt that way. I’ve even … Continue...
View ArticleApplication for membership in the cranky pants association.
Sent to the London Drugs complaint email: I would like to request further training in customer service for the 2 gentlemen who were on duty as clerks in the camera and accessories department of the...
View ArticleWine, cheese, conversation.
Youth is such an exciting time. Even being in the company of people 25 and under is energizing, refreshing. There is that sense of potential, of all the things they will do. Of course they take so much...
View ArticleJust call me Elwood.
I know I have mentioned before that I’m a total loser. Not in the perjorative sense but in a more adjectival sense, as in someone who continually loses things. It’s a family affliction: my mother had...
View ArticleI am not made of Velveteen.
Many years ago when I knew everything about life and took so very much about it for granted the office manager sent me to a time management seminar. This was before marriage and children so, needless...
View ArticleGratitudes 2012
“There are two way to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle, the other as though everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein Every so often, while looking up a saying or quote for one thing,...
View ArticleEven tapioca is better.
There are some things I rarely talk about for one reason or another. My belief that pudding is in every way superior to jello as a dessert. Or why I can never remember which day is Christmas…seriously,...
View ArticleWaiting for the early bird special.
Come in, child, and close the door. I’m just resting my old bones by the fire and keeping company with my old sheepdog, Shep. I know he died years ago and this is just a broom with a blanket but …...
View ArticleAn elephant in happy face pajamas
An Esquimalt News Column from 2005. I think it’s one of those themes that goes from generation to generation. Okay, it’s true. There is a conspiracy by Baby Boomers to live forever and make life...
View ArticleNo one says an alcoholic has a pretty face.
There are a lot of different diet programs out there; my body is a jiggling testament to the effectiveness of many of them. There are some diets that claim our bodies were never meant to eat refined...
View ArticleGrowing into their wings.
Based on 2001 column I wrote in the Esquimalt News. So if you think you read something like this sometime before somewhere…maybe you did. Or maybe not. Perhaps my problem with teenagers stems from...
View ArticleLessons learned this side of the sod #8
#8. Adjustments At 23 I could go through a night of the flu, rolled up in a house coat on the floor of the bathroom, grateful for my foresight in cleaning the toilet on the weekend. By 5:30 p.m. after...
View ArticleI think it was chocolate
I am in the first generation to grow up with television. My first memory is being in a high chair at what I’m pretty sure was my birthday party (I don’t know how many candles were on the cake because...
View ArticleCare for a mess of Potage?
More and more public archives are finding their funding restricted, reduced and cut. This impairs their ability to preserve the public records they have been given in public trust. Along comes an...
View ArticleOnce More Around the Block, 58 Reasons for a Victory Lap
Apparently titles that promise a short list of life changing secrets get the most attention. That’s why you see so many “4 Reasons You Need This Widget” Or “3 Simple Exercises to Live Forever” . Or “5...
View Article3 out of 7
It’s one of those days when my mind wanders and finds itself snagged, like a favourite sweater, on an idea. The only way to deal with it is to take a step back, stop saying those bad words, gently...
View ArticleOkay, Let’s try that again: Virtues, take 2
They are the source of a lot of jokes, the seven deadly sins, the seven countering virtues and the seven dwarfs. Bah doooom bah…Take my wife please. Cruising Facebook and the comment sections...
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