What people do
I’m a people watcher. I observe the behaviour of other people. This is a form of entertainment for me when there’s nothing else to do. Smart people take reading material to airports to await their flight (and cheap snacks and homemade sandwiches, because airport prices make you think they did an express courier from Japan […]
The future
I’m a historian, I look back and see what I see. And I see it through the eyes of the people who lived there, in the past, at the time. This why I don’t understand the need to dig up history, only to measure it up against our sophisticated standards of right and wrong. Easy […]
Carefree and careless
Ah June! It’s like that slow ascent on a rollercoaster. It’s exciting. You know what’s coming. The month of June precedes all of the ups and downs and twists and turns of summer. If you’re an oldie, like I am, you probably remember the excitement you felt as a child when the month of June […]
Living under BS
I usually leave this to Rick Conroy, who seems to find great great joy in analyzing council documents, and can actually read and understand their bizarre budgeting reports, with endless pages. Personally, I would have slit my throat after page five, because these documents are printed in an alien language I can’t wrap my head […]
From Sassy to Gassy
Is there a month dedicated to senior citizens’ concerns about their future? I’m sure there is. It probably hides behind some elderly-centric health issues month. Whatever, I woke up today thinking my life is pretty good. While drinking my morning coffee and doing a few of “those” word games I did, however, think about dementia […]
The ‘But Why’s’
My nephew has reached the stage in life when everything is interesting and he wants to learn the inner workings from his older and wiser Uncle Carson. We spent an afternoon doing some yard work, and as I showed him all of my fun yard tools and how they worked, he constantly asked “but why?”. […]
Bubble bubble
How many times have I actually paid attention to medical advice offered on the socials by people who may—or may not—be licensed medical practitioners? Well, let’s just say I’ve never done anything really stupid, yet. And, honestly,I have done research on some of the claims so-called “practitioners” have made on the socials. It is fascinating […]
Us and them revisited
Following up on my previous column, I flashback to the Good Ol’ Days, when ‘Us’—those of us who were long-time locals—were troubled with the arrival of ‘Them’—people from away, who would surely ruin our way of life. This was back in the 1980s, when the County was discovered. Since then the ‘them’ turned out to […]
Ageing wines
There is thought to be a high point as to when it is best to consume certain wines. That ageing them for a long period of time will increase their complexity and thus their enjoyment. And that if you miss this point, at the wine’s peak age, you will have missed the mark. That on […]
Emergency maturity
Well, wasn’t that a party? Mother’s Day at our place began in a quiet, dark house. No hum of appliances. No CPAP whir. No quiet drone of the furnace. No whoosh of the cool-mist humidifier. The first eight or nine hours of Sunday were spent without hydro. It may have been our first Mother’s Day […]