You know
So, summer disappeared in a hurry. How the heck did that happen? Didn’t we just put the lawn chairs out about a week ago? I know. I know. We’ve got oodles of good weather ahead, before we have to find the shovels and scrapers and antifreeze. Is this what getting old is all about? Time […]
Being picky
You’ve checked ripeness. The grapes are nearly ready. Almost there. You check the weather for the fifth time today. 28 degrees. Rain on Thursday. Quick math. Three days of hot weather will add 0.75 Brix. Pick in two days; that’s all the notice you get. You send the text: “PG – 19.2/3.26/7.4”. Three phones chime. […]
Notwithstanding Doug Ford
My goodness, Premier Doug Ford has certainly made himself a meal of his determination to cut down the size of Toronto city council immediately. It makes the fight over the size of council in the County seem like a church tea. As I write this, Mr. Ford’s forces have just finished second reading of the […]
Who put the bull in my backyard?
We, the collective “we”, voted for Doug Ford. Yes, we did. We let a bully become the Premier of Ontario. Yup, Prince Edward County went to the polls on June 7th and we put an X beside Todd Smith’s name. We went to bed that evening thinking Todd Smith was one of us and woke […]
Choosing the man for Wellington
Last week’s edition (September 5), contained articles about each of the three candidates running for councillor in Wellington (Ward Three), based upon asking them identical questions about their “priorities, aspirations and reasons for running.” After reading and rereading the articles, I’m left with the impression that all three candidates are gripping similar parts of the […]
If you don’t like it, don’t look!
When I was a new-to-motherhood person, still in the maternity ward, a nurse came over to me and asked if I were going to bottle or breastfeed. I said I wanted to breastfeed and, bless her heart, she spent the next 20 minutes telling me what happens to a woman who decides to breastfeed. Basically, […]
Remembering the Donald
This was a week for big funerals. We had two to contend with: one for the lady from Detroit who finally got a lot of what she musically claimed she never received as a woman, namely Respect; and the other for the man who stood above partisan politics and was praised as a patriot, a […]
Take a load off
Summer. Almost as soon as it started, it was done and here we are in the midst of the Labour Day weekend—inundated with back-to-school activities, events and advertisements. Of course, there’s still about three weeks until the official start of Autumn, but now we’re into the cool-down section of the summer season. September is a […]
Moses and web insight
Just sayin’ that we had one cool morning recently which for me flashed lucid images in my brain of stacking firewood, and cool also triggered reflexes to chase around the closet not for cool as in fashion, but mainly for the comfort of knowing flannel shirts aren’t buried away someplace and are within easy reach […]
Delivering the online world
If a stranger to our customs asked me how to go about buying a shirt, I would until recently have told him to go to the store and look at the selection, try a couple on, select his favourite, pay for it with cash or a credit card and then take it home and enjoy […]