Alpha dogs
I should come clean before I begin. I am one of those people who believe dogs should run free. I understand the difficulty the people at Quinte Conservation have encountered. It’s the problem any organization tasked with managing wilderness trails will eventually run into. People like me, who believe dogs should run free, think they’ve […]
Carleton’s remarkable coach
I have spent the last few years south of the border during the basketball season called March Madness. It is a time when many Americans wave the flag of their favourite college basketball team. It is not necessary for a fan to attend the school they support. In fact, there are many Kentucky fans, for […]
Meanwhile, in hockey poetry
Do you ever get the feeling that sports reporting is a trifle overwrought? That sometimes it gets just a little bit boring and repetitive? No, me neither. Still, I wonder whether the sports reporting powers that be have considered moving to a more concise form of explication—putting sports news into terse verse. With verse, you’ve […]
Around the blend
While stocking up at the Picton LCBO last Wednesday, Kimberly and I got into a conversation with Tom, who suggested an article explaining the differences between single varietal wines, blended wines, and meritages. I suspect each and every LCBO employee fields this question on a daily basis. The single varietal is easy to explain: the […]
Spring has sprung
Spring cleaning. What the H E double mop heads is that all about? The good thing is, I’m not as fanatic as I once was about spring cleaning. Spring cleaning used to be a distraction from real life’s ups and downs. In bygone days, the moment the snow was gone from the corners of the […]
Duty of care
Last week, a 15-year-old girl in Winnipeg was removed from life support after being sexually assaulted and severely beaten. A boy the same age is in custody. Both are wards of Manitoba’s Child and Family Services, a similar agency to Ontario’s Children’s Aid Society. The children were living in a hotel in Winnipeg when the […]
Virtuous vino
Last week, I made some observations on the pros and cons of tippling wine. Suffice to say, the benefits are slim, at best, if one consumes buckets of wine. Overindulgence is severely detrimental to one’s physical well-being. A glass or two of wine on a daily basis, however, can help you enjoy the full embrace […]
Spring run off
Suddenly it’s a personal space. The view from here more open than the sky itself; a bench at the crest of a dune in Sandbanks park: sweeping land forms; placid waters. And now a row of man-made structures, strung along the faraway horizon like a necklace of stranded shells. Up from the robust, day-parking lot […]
A thankless job
How many of you would like to be Chief Administrative Officer of the Corporation of the County of Prince Edward at a very attractive salary level? You are mandated to break some eggs in order to achieve efficiencies. But if you break the wrong eggs, or break the right eggs the wrong way, you’re a […]
The bucket list
A friend recently said she had a bucket list. I don’t have a bucket list. At least not one that I’ve written in my little black book or saved to a file on my computer. Furthermore, my friend said she’d ticked several things off of her list. I can’t say I’ve done that either, but […]