Author Archives: Lorne Anderson
The Last Game
The Canadian Football League season ends tonight with the 113th Grey Cup. Much of the country will be watching this annual tradition. Americans make a big deal of their national championship. The Super Bowl has to be identified by Roman numerals to show just how important it is. The next one, Super Bowl LXI will […]
Five Truly Random Thoughts
I saw snow flurries early Friday morning. I am not emotionally ready for winter. Do you think God would listen if I suggested a postponement? On Friday the entire American aviation system was shit down due to technical difficulties. Was your first thought like mine, that it was probably some AI agent gone rogue? Apparently […]
Friday’s Question
When I was living in Germany, I still subscribed to my Ottawa newspaper. The only change was I switched to a digital version instead of the print edition. I have noted in the past five years especially that the quality of the paper has deteriorated. The paper has shrunk, the “news” is stale. I understand […]
Remembering
They came by the thousands. They do every year. To mourn. To pray. To remember. Each year I talk myself out of attending the national Remembrance Day ceremonies in downtown Ottawa. I tell myself it is too cold, too rainy, I am too busy with work, and the view is better on television. At home, […]
Nightly Remembrance
For me Remembrance Day, November 11, is one of the most emotional days of the year. maybe it is because I had family members who served in the wars. Maybe it is my sense of history and tradition. Maybe it is my Christian understanding of sacrifice. Whichever, at the eleventh hour this morning I will […]
Child Soldiers
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, […]
Looking At The Channel
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 […]
The Other Side
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 […]
Those Red Flowers
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 […]
Redecorating
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 […]
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