Tennis anyone?
We tennis buffs do not mind getting up early for the games across the pond. They are into the latter stages of the French Open in Paris, at the Roland-Garros Stadium. There is a six-hour time difference affecting the situation. The clocks around the stadium indicate it’s a little after noon, whereas here in Canada, […]
And Then, Redux
As parents (and grandparents), LOML and I watched in horror as the story of yet another mass shooting took place, most recently in Uvalde, Texas USA. We can’t even imagine how a parent or caregiver would deal with the loss of a child, or adult, under any circumstances, but a mass shooting in a school? […]
What’s on your plate?
A North American grocery retailer generated approximately 53.17 billion Canadian dollars in revenue in 2021. Most of us have groceryshopped there or at one of their other holdings or iterations. And most Canadian communities are host to one of their companies. And, here we are, blaming the Pandemic and the war in Ukraine on escalating […]
Round two
For many of you, the party’s over. After seven games, your team was eliminated. I understand that, but there is still plenty of hockey to be played. There are eight teams remaining, and, in order to hoist Lord Stanley’s mug, the team must win 12 games. The Tampa Bay Lightning will play the next series […]
No, I don’t want a cat
April! It’s almost done. By Saturday we’ll be staring May in the kisser. The April Showers arrived and encouraged the irises and lilies to poke through the ground. Our yard birds are twitter-pated and LOML and I making plans to spend a bit more time out-of-doors. We are tired of the home improvement shows and […]
Half past April
Sunday, April 17th. CBS Sunday Morning, coffee, chocolate eggies, laptop and a box of tissues! Recently, LOML and I have referred to Sunday as the “Let’s hope we test negative day”. By nine this Easter Sunday morning we’ve chowed on a couple chocolate treats, a couple of mugs of coffee and a couple of slices […]
It’s not a Cold
9:05, Sunday, April 3rd. Let me just get this out and y’all can mull it over. The Pandemic isn’t over, I’ve got the feeling in my head. The Coronavirus is never going away. It’s always been here. It’s still here. To make this point, in the past 10 days I’ve heard from more people who […]
A whole new political ballgame
As of last Tuesday, there is a new Canadian political agenda, made public in identical releases from the offices of the Prime Minister and the NDP. Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh had been talking about doing a deal all of last fall, but it only came together after the NDP supported the Liberals on the […]
A Season’s Season
Spring! We’re a few days into it and some of us have already forgotten how delicious it is to wait for warmer weather and sunnier skies. I’ve forgotten. I’ve forgotten what it’s like to leave home in minus temperatures and head back dragging my boots and overcoat behind. I have even forgotten to enjoy the […]
The 330-million-year-old octopus
Researchers at the Royal Ontario Museum have come up trumps. A piece of limestone rock from Montana that was donated to the Museum back in 1988 has recently been found to contain a fossil that is an estimated 330 million years old. That predates the era of the dinosaurs and eclipses the previous best estimate […]