Monthly Archives: June 2016
Food Filler
What do you do when you have a busy day and no time to finish a blog post? Throw in some food porn. Even better if it involves chocolate. Technically i suppose this is fruit porn, but you get the meaning.
Trump Versus Clinton
A friend sent me a link to a Donald Trump video he wanted me to share with you. He said it was going viral. It wasn’t, at least not when I looked at it on YouTube. Unless the definition of viral has changed. And, quite frankly, the video was boring. Maybe another time I’ll come […]
The Big Give II
Saturday morning I took part in The Big Give, but I have been waffling about telling you all about it. I did mention earlier than I wanted to participate in this free garage sale that was being held at 65 Ottawa churches, including Cedarview Alliance where I am a member. Participate I did, but […]
Less Than A Thousand Words
Roadway construction has caused me to alter my daily commute, trying to find a way downtown that doesn’t take twice what it used to. The bus regularly gets snarled in traffic, so I opted for the train. The drawback is that I have to transfer from the train to a bus on the outskirts of […]
Musical Memories
About the third song this past Friday night it hit me. Living in Montreal, at the end of the 1960s and during the early 1970s I had the opportunity to experience an explosion of creative musical culture that may have been unprecedented. Certainly it was for Canada Last Friday Michel Pagliaro came to town. I […]
Municipal Tensions
Clashes between church and state are never pretty. There is a tension between the sacred and the secular, between worldviews that all too often seem diametrically opposed when you would expect them to be complementary. After all, both the state and religious authorities are ostensibly concerned with the well-being of the people. I guess it […]
Dervish Dance
I had mixed feelings about attending – but I am glad I did. Whirling dervishes are part of an obscure branch of Islam, an ecstatic dance performed only in a few places. I won’t go into details, you can look it up. I am extremely reluctant to contribute financially to something I don’t believe in, […]
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