Remembrance Week is a time to reflect, as well as honor those who died serving our country. I am reposting some of the pieces I wrote after visiting battlefields and cemeteries in Europe a few years ago. This post is from November 2014. When we visited the Commonwealth Military Cemetery at Essex Farm, near Ypres, […]
As we are in Remembrance Week, I am returning to some of my favorite past posts on the theme, reflections on my visits to wartime battlefields in Europe. This one is from September 22, 2014. They knew it was coming. Not the exact date or time, but there was a sense of inevitability. One day […]
In keeping with our Remembrance Day theme this week, some thoughts from a visit to a German war cemetery in Belgium. This one was first published here on September 6, 2014. It is a solemn place and a stark reminder that there were no winners in the First World War. Langemark Cemetery is a memorial […]
She noticed that as she was walking people were wearing a red flower. She mentioned it when we were watching a hockey game on television – all the hosts had the same red flower on their lapels. In Canada we don’t think about how what we do is different from what happens in much of […]
What nice idea. Donald Trump is saving American taxpayers some money with his latest idea. He has signed a proclamation designating the Oval Office in the White House a national landmark. Which means his successors, if there are any (and I am not convinced he will allow an election in 2028), will have to live […]
The pollsters were right, my gut feeling was wrong and Democrats now control both houses of Congress. That armies of lawyers are not converging on the states the Democrats flipped in Tuesday’s midterm elections is a miracle of sorts. After all, the Republican Party playbook in recent years has been to question the authenticity of […]
I’ve never done it before, but tonight I expect to watch the returns in the US midterm elections. Some of them anyway. Even though I don’t have a vote. I am curious as to the outcome. Mostly, I want to see if my gut feeling about this election is correct. According to all the polls, […]
I do have a post about the US midterm elections coming later today, but when I saw this I knew I had to share it. Stephan Pastis is one of my favorite writers. He has a razor-sharp wit that he uses to observe the world around us. In a few simple comic panels he explains […]
Money talks. Should it? Is anyone listening? Americans go to the polls Tuesday to elect a third of the US Senate and all 435 members of the House of Representatives. Campaign spending has hit record amounts, billions of dollars. Political advertising alone has crossed the $11 billion mark. And there are lots of expenses besides […]
Actually, it isn’t that bad, I just liked the image. As an introvert I sympathize. For the record, people’s faces don’t annoy me. Nor does being awake. Sounds though are another matter. Sounds especially set my nerves on age in a way they didn’t when I was younger. Maybe I am more sensitive, maybe my […]
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