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 […]
Will there be fries with that charity?
Last week I was all about the size of our waists. This week I’m all about supporting McDonalds. I’m not suggesting you run out and supersize yourself. Far from it. And if you know me, and some of you truly believe you do, you know I would never blame a fun-food/fast-food establishment for the shape […]
The basics
There’s a basic process for making wine. Grapes are grown all summer and harvested in the fall. The exact harvest date is a last-minute decision by the winemaker. They have to manage four things: sweetness, flavour, weather and labour. As summer turns to Fall, grapes begin ripening faster and faster. Every few days the winemaker […]
Bossy
I’m going to get all bossy, again, this week. I know you’ve got a junk drawer in your kitchen. Yeah, you do. Dig around and see if you have a measuring tape, and not one of those metal measuring tapes you’d use for drywall and two-by-fours. The fabric tape, it’s flexible. Tape in hand, haul […]