Monthly Archives: December 2023
New Year’s Eve, Again
My original intention was to pontificate on 2023, talk a bit about the high and low points of the year. To prepare for that I looked at the post from this day last year, to see if I had made any predictions for the year ahead. I didn’t. Instead I gave you a number of […]
Not The Lego Version
They’re on everyone’s bucket list, one of the most visited tourist sites in the world. And they look like the world’s biggest Lego structure. Well, maybe that Is an unfair description of the pyramids in the Cairo suburb of Giza. They certainly are an impressive site/sight. Seeing them once should be enough. It isn’t as […]
The Birthday Party
My daughter wanted to do something a bit different for her birthday last year. Usually we invite family members over for birthday cake, This time she wanted to change the routine. With our family, getting together can be easier said than done. We don’t all live in the same community, or even the same continent. […]
Definitely Not A Hit
Many years ago I hosted a daily noon-hour request show at Ottawa’s CHRI-FM. I had mixed feelings about it. The plus was the interaction with the audience. Radio is a solitary occupation, and those who called in with requests were a reminder that there was an audience out there, that the songs I was playing weren’t […]
The In-Between Time
The week between Christmas and New Year’s always seems different somehow. It is as if time has slowed down.In Canada, Christmas Boxing Day and New Year’s Day are statutory holidays. Given that, many people take the other three days of that work week off to get an extended vacation. There are fewer cars on the […]
Changing Times
Today is Boxing day – and I have no idea what is on sale. That may be because there is really nothing I need. Yes, I have plenty of wants, but my life is no less fulfilled if none of those ever happen. I think though it is more the way society has shifted. This […]
Merry Christmas!
Of course, there is no point to Christmas on it’s own. Good Friday, and then Easter, are what give it meaning.
Christmas Eve, 2023
Today is the fourth Sunday in Advent, the day we light the candle signifying Love. Like Hope, Peace and Joy the previous few Sundays, sometimes it doesn’t feel like there is much love in the world. The picture is of a nativity scene at a Lutheran church in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ. Setting […]
Christmas Eve Eve
I was out shopping today. Groceries, not presents, but that meant I saw the crowds. Lots of people looking for last-minute gifts. I’m at that stage in life where gift-giving ir pretty easy. My family has everything the need. except, I am told, a potato masher, so we don’t really exchange Christmas presents. That’s easy […]
Three More Sleeps
With Christmas just around the corner, some Advent thoughts from 2015. He looked round again and could hardly believe his eyes. There was the blue sky overhead, and grassy country spreading as far as he could see in every direction, and his new friends all round him, laughing. “It seems, then,” said Tirian, smiling himself, […]
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