Flashback Friday, and we revisit May 10, 2015. I was cleaning up some computer files and came across the picture below. If you have any introverts in your life (and most of us do) this can be a helpful guide to keeping them happy and healthy. Reading those over in 2024, I am struck by […]
Memories fade, but this is ridiculous. I’ve been bitten yet again by a mobile German holiday. In 2018 there were a few mornings when I headed to the grocery store, only to find it closed for a holiday I wasn’t aware of. In Canada stores post holiday hours a week or so beforehand. In Germany […]
I had CNN in the background while I was making dinner (I haven’t yet figured out how to change TV channels where I’m staying this week.) and was struck by the wording of one of the stories. The anchor referred to the paying of hush money by Donald Trump to a porn star with whom […]
“But supposing that the world has become “filled up,” so to speak, with liberal democracies, such that there exist no tyranny and oppression worthy of the name against which to struggle? Experience suggests that if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier generation, then […]
Welcome to Flashback Friday, a look back at this space from past years. Today’s post first ran eight years ago today, April 26, 2016. Anyone with half a brain could have seen it coming. That no-one did is probably because there were politicians involved. A couple of years back the Ontario government decided that sick leave […]
Just another work day for most of us. Just a few images today to (hopefully) make you smile.
For this Flashback Friday we go back to April 19, 2016. Apparently I am not an idiot. One of my jobs requires logging in to a computer in another city, using a virtual private network. When it works, which is usually, it is a simple system. A few weeks back though I couldn’t connect. I […]
It was sixty years ago today my family moved from one Montreal suburb to another, a move that changed my life. That tree wasn’t there, neither were the bushes. Come to think of it, the grass hadn’t been put in yet either. My parents didn’t say so at the time, but it was a sign […]
For today’s Flashback Friday post we revisit April 12, 2015. Kind of a Good Friday theme. While in Germany last summer we visited Museum Abtei Liesborn, which has the largest collection of crucifixes in Germany, more than 800 of them. I have written about that visit already, but thought today I would share just a couple more photos from that […]
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