I am sure many people are used to saying the phrase “back when I was in school” but in this case it is completely appropriate. Many years ago, when I was in school, post secondary […]
A recent conversation with a peer led to the usual trodden out expression that the subject of our conversation should “take the high road” in a situation. I’ve often wondered about this expression – to […]
It used to be that we’d have a down-time between elections, A time that we did not have to pay that much attention to politicians and their antics. Thanks to the perpetual election machine that […]
I am not a gear head. I have enough automotive knowledge to be annoying to the people who fix my cars, but lack the knowledge and skill to do the work myself. That said, I […]
The secular holiday of Festivus was invented by an American author named Daniel O’Keefe and was popularized in a 1997 episode of the TV show Seinfeld. While this is normally celebrated on December 23, for […]
I heard once that the older you get, the faster time passes. It really has felt like that this year. The year has flown past, or at least it feels like it has. Even now […]
I haven’t felt this foolish in many years. Call it a slip of the grey matter; a symptom of being on the downward slope of my 40s; or a simple error. To paraphrase a hapless […]
After months of negotiations it was announced last week that the Canadian government and Google had reached an agreement to have the online search engine giant pay towards the creation of Canadian News. This deal […]
A few years ago, my wife and I began watching a UK property show called Escape to the Country. The show’s host helps a potential home owner move to a rural spot in the United […]
Not long after our second oldest child was born, I decided to rid myself of this trunk of old toys. Most of it was Transformers from the 1980s. I had a number of these robots-in-disguise. […]
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