Double Dutch brainwaves
Well you have to hand it to the Dutch. The Euro Zone may be in the tank, but they not only keep producing the world’s tallest people, and the world’s best cheese, they also keep coming up with the best ideas. Here’s a couple I’ve read about recently. The first idea is the “Repair Café.” […]
Tennis, anyone?
Last Monday morning, Rafael Nadal defeated Novak Djokovic to win his seventh French open title, the most held by any one man in the history of the game. Both he and Bjorn Borg had been tied with six titles. The match had been suspended on Sunday, due to rain. Conditions were not perfect when the […]
The Lost Dream
Michael Sage Danton was born in Brampton, Ontario on October 21, 1980. He is the son of Mike and Sue Jefferson. The name printed on his birth certificate is Michael Stephen Jefferson; however, following his estrangement from his family, he changed his name to Danton. For many years, Steve Simmons has followed Danton’s career. He […]
Feats of boredom
I’ve been following tightrope walker Nik Wallenda’s recent successful effort to obtain permission to walk across Niagara Falls. But I’ve decided I’m indifferent to it, for two reasons. First, if I want to watch this sort of entertainment for its ‘deathwatch’ component, I’m going to be disappointed. In order to get TV coverage, Wallenda has […]
Thanks and thoughts
We’ve just arrived home from Toronto. I’m tired. LOML is tired and I’m just guessing our two youngest are tired, too. If I said it was just another relaxing weekend in The City, I’d be lying. We were together to ride in the 2012 Ride for Heart. With your generous help we managed to raise […]
Serendipity
DNA tests show that some of the greatest, and most recognized, grape varieties were the serendipitous result of one variety being crossed with another, by either chance or design. The University of California Davis proposes that the “chardonnay” grape we love originated from a cross of “pinot noir” and “gouais blanc.” (The latter was brought […]
NBA playoffs 2012
Dwayne Wade and his mother Jolinda have traded roles a few times lately. He will sit proudly at the front of the congregation in her church. She has had her proud moments watching her son play basketball. Dwayne plays for the Miami Heat, now in a battle with the Boston Celtics for the eastern crown […]
Skin deep
Beauty. What is beauty, anyway? Since I was a little kid, beauty has mostly been defined by cosmetics companies, fashion designers, advertisers and marketing specialists—defined to sell products. My mother, who loved to read magazines and watch movies, had her own definition of beauty and mostly it was focused on slim women who looked good […]
The fossilized list
I was recently given a gift certificate to buy a book, and I chose The Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of all Time Special Collectors Issue. I’d like to say that this was because some earnest treatise on the collapse of the global economy was out of stock, but I can’t, because it wasn’t. I […]
Fruit of the desert
By happenstance, I recently came across a news article on vineyards in the Gobi desert. My only previous knowledge of the area was its historic significance as a barrier between the Mongols and the Chinese Empire. I more recently read of the Gobi’s fierce sandstorms (one of which deposited over 300,000 tons of sand on […]