The Dream Team
So Prince Harry and Meghan Markle want to step back from the burden of Royal work and to do so splitting their time between North America and Britain. Having watched 18 episodes (with 12 left to go) of The Crown, I consider myself something of an expert on matters Royal, so I will venture to […]
Rendered Fat and Income Tax
Oh, January. During the month of January I find myself thinking about getting our income tax stuff together. You know what I mean. I find myself digging through drawers looking for all of the receipts and slips. LOML clears out last year’s file folders and I am faced with a massive pile of bills paid, […]
Changing our national anthem
O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love In all of us command With glowing hearts we see thee rise The true north strong and free! From far and wide O Canada We stand on guard for thee God keep our land Glorious and free! O Canada we stand on guard for thee […]
Wait! What? January
It’s a New Year! It’s either the end of a decade or the beginning of a decade. It’s time for a list of resolutions. Today, LOML and I will put Christmas away and one of us will down a few resolutions. She’ll probably kick those resolutions to the curb before Valentine’s Day. But, it’s January. […]
A festive however and whatever
If you know me (and let’s be honest, you don’t), you may think this column is going to be about The Holidays. So, if that’s what you thought, you might be right. I’ll give you that much. In some way, shape or form, my crazy family celebrates “The Holidays”. Some among us are Christian. Some […]
A conversation starter
What music would you take with you if you were to be stranded on a desert island? That’s the starting point for the long-running British radio series Desert Island Discs. Each episode, a celebrity is asked to choose eight recordings, one book and a luxury item with which to while away their time on an […]
Mittens, scarves and boots, oh my!
December is a challenging month. With a front hall full of extra jackets, winter boots, mittens, scarves, woolly socks and boot trays, it’s easy to see winter has arrived a little bit early. I’m not sure when I’ll get tired of sweeping up “road salt” and mopping up puddles of icy cold water. I may […]
A lucky man?
I feel badly for Andrew Scheer. After having won the leadership of his party on the basis of his apparent ability to straddle the gap between ‘socially conservative’ Conservatives and ‘socially liberal’ Conservatives, he finds clowns to the left of him and jokers to the right, all searching for his scalp. The socially conservative see […]
The cold old days
Let it snow! The second snow storm of the fall has hit us hard. Honestly, I don’t remember exactly when the snow fell when I was a kid. I do know we had a green Christmas the year I was eleven and a few winters when the hike across Strathburn Park then the two-block walk […]
It’s the glossy season
A young businesswoman I know asked me if I’d seen a recent article in a Toronto newspaper about two local tourist attractions/businesses. I hadn’t, but I knew which places she was speaking of. Both of those businesses do get a lot of press. Sometimes it’s press that looks like “travel news”, other times it’s press […]