Monthly Archives: August 2026
Friday’s Question
Deal or no deal? The latest deadline for Canada and the USA to come to a trade agreement is tonight at midnight. What do you think will happen? I suspect that for most people trade talks are deadly boring, so I have not been spending much time here on the ongoing trade dispute. It mostly […]
Wagging The Dog
There will be fireworks beside the pier in Old Orchard Beach tonight. Despite the police chief’s objections. The Thursday night fireworks have been at 9:45 for decades. I seem to remember them being at 9:30 when I was younger, but my memory for such things isn’t guaranteed. Earlier this summer they were moved to 9. […]
Rock DNA
What’s in a name, Shakespeare asked. I’m pondering that in advance of a concert in Ottawa tonight. It was the names that attracted me. Three seventies powerhouses, two with sixties roots. Jefferson Starship, Kansas and Deep Purple are sharing the stage. I have seen these bands before. But not there versions. There is one original […]
Images At Sunrise
Some people sleep in when they are on vacation. Not me. I have always been an early riser. That made m a natural for morning radio – I was awake already at the early hour required. it has been 20 years since I did morning radio, but I am still awake before five most mornings. […]
Looking At The Moon
No not that moon. This one. Walking along Old Orchard Beach at dawn earlier this month, I noted a number of snails and snail shells. I suppose that is not unusual, but it seemed to me to be more of the one type than I remember from previous visits. Looking it up, i discovered that […]
Just a Reminder
It has been a log hot summer. People have been complaining about the heat and humidity. I’m one of them. It won’t last though. In the near future we will be complaining instead about the cold and snow. In the dog days of summer we forget how much we hate winter. When the snow is […]
Signs of our Times
Do they do any good? The rallies, the protests, the signs? Driving through North Conway, New Hampshire, I noted a demonstration against ICE (that’s US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), probably a protest over the recent shooting of an immigrant. Not the first time ICE has killed someone who had committed no crime. i thought about […]
A Matter of Respect
Or artificial intelligence. Or smart phones. Some of us are even old enough to remember when there were no calculators. We used slide rules. Each generation has a different approach to education. Sometimes the differences are slight, while at other times there is a seismic shift in how information is imparted. Is one way better […]
Filling the Space
I have three posts I was considering for today. This isn’t one of them. I’m on vacation. Most of this week’s posts were completed last week. The weather has been great and I have been spending 12 hours or more daily on the beach. Finishing a blog post requires motivation. Motivation requires rain. Even for […]
Rules of Grammar
There are always exceptions. That’s what makes English so fun. Or should that be frustrating?
random thoughts from lorne 
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