A Sign of the Times
The sign has been erected along Wharf Street where the former Cribs on the Creek used to be. The Cribs website refers you over to the Drake website, and the Drake website says it’s “coming soon”. So I guess it’s official: the Drake empire is expanding, and the Drake Motor Inn will be the first […]
Clippings or cucumbers
Like I’ve been saying, “March is Women’s History Month”. But by the second to last weekend of the month it’s difficult to remember it’s still March. Most of us have moved along to seed catalogues, lawn care products, bedding plants and patio party planning. My mom was raised in downtown Toronto. The yard at her […]
Searching for Churchill
It has been a week filled with political tension in the UK, as the March 29 deadline for Britain’s escape from the European Union moves ever closer. The British parliament has now voted down Theresa May’s Brexit deal twice, but has also voted down the idea of leaving the EU without an exit deal in […]
Peel, Wrangle, Write
March! It’s still Women’s History Month and I’m still on a journey to understand myself. I used to think life would be pretty simple once I found the “man of my dreams”, settled down and made a home for my own family. I don’t know where I got the idea that adult life was a […]
Sugardance
There was a man, a writer priest who worked on commission for the King of France and who told in his records of an explorer and mega star from the port of Saint Malo on the channel coast of France, a place renowned for its industries of local extortion and worldly excursions of adventure. The […]
Timbit diplomacy
I have frequently resorted to poking a stick at the easy target of Tim Hortons. It’s about time I said something a little nicer about the company. So here goes. According to an article in the Globe and Mail a few weeks ago, Tims has decided to enter the coffee market in China It plans […]
Historic women
March is Women’s History Month. As I wrote last week, when I try to understand myself, I am reminded who my mother was. I’m not sure Mom ever understood the celebrating of International Women’s Day or of Women’s History Month. She was the kind of person who did what she had to do. If a […]
Surviving DocFest
Well, I survived the annual three-day late winter ritual— the Belleville Downtown DocFest, now celebrating its eighth year. But only just. DocFest is an endurance event. In addition to several plenary showings at the Empire theatre, there are six simultaneous showings at venues around the downtown, in seven different time slots, of a total of […]
Red Rover, Red Rover
March is Women’s History Month. Every woman has a story. Your granny has a story. Your aunties have stories. Your mother has a story. I have a story. During this month of women’s history, I hope to be able to tell my story and in doing so, encourage other women to tell their stories. I […]
Saved From Homer and Chaucer
Is this weather crazy or what? It warms up just enough to turn the ice to pools of water, but not enough that the water drains away. Then it freezes over and you’re stuck with massive new ice patches. Next it snows, meaning you have to shovel in order to maintain access to the outside […]