Smells like camping
For the first time in about three years, LOML and I have decided to go camping. I’m talking about sleeping on the ground, in a tent, in sleeping bags. We’ll be cooking on a 52 year old Coleman Stove and keeping our food coldish in a cooler. I wouldn’t say we’re harkening back to the […]
Nothing set in concrete
It’s just one of the things you know; an everyday object carries you down some not so everyday path. It was over Sophiasburgh way that it happened, where a white swan’s neck called for attention above the straggle of a last year’s late summer yard sale. The neck didn’t belong to a real life bird […]
Royalty for a day
I’ll fess up right away and admit I watched the royal wedding – and enjoyed it. I did it as a gesture of respect for Prince Charles, whom I encountered fleetingly last summer as our vehicles sped in opposite directions along the Loyalist Parkway. We extended mutual waves, and silently promised one another we’d meet […]
Ditchin’ and hoping
In the olden days, when it came to picking a restaurant, our dialogue often went something like this. “What do you feel like eating?” “I don’t care. You pick.” “How about burgers?” “No, I don’t want burgers.” “What do you want?” “I don’t care. You pick?” Eventually, we’d just go for whatever the first choice […]
The golden period
I planned to read the 2017 authorized biography of Gordon Lightfoot just as soon as I could lay my hands on a copy. So when I stumbled across Lightfoot, by Nicholas Jennings, on the library shelf the other day, I grabbed it and devoured it in one sitting. Lightfoot, as non-fans are no doubt tired […]
X marks the spot
Darn it all, anyway. As if I didn’t have enough stuff to keep my little brain whirling around, now I have to get serious about who gets my “X” on election day. Personally, I am tired of all the mudslinging, the horse-pucky and senseless banter going on in the media right now. Every time we […]
Some lucky people
There were some lucky people who shared an experience last Friday night. (The whole County shared the experience of the windstorm, so I’m not talking about that.) I’m talking about the group of people who, over the course of a two-hour period, got to deliver and hear short presentations from local writers; ranging from the […]
Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day. It’s next Sunday. I don’t get too excited about Mother’s Day, for myself. I think I’ve done the job I set out to do and I probably couldn’t have done it alone. No, wait a second, I know I couldn’t have managed being a mother without a lot of help from LOML, my […]
Hopeful discovery
People who know me know I don’t know squirrels. I make up most of the facts I have about them. Like this one—squirrels don’t remember where they bury food. They spend April wandering around, discovering places that feel like somewhere they’d dig a stash. Sometimes they get lucky. Spring is marked by hopeful discovery. There […]
A sobering controversy
A controversy is fermenting right here in the County. And it is a sobering reminder that you can’t please everybody. County staff are reviewing a proposal from a group of like minded residents that the County dip into its reserves budget and fund the erection of a statue memorializing Letitia Youmans. The proposed location for […]