Category Society
Memories of Empire
I almost forgot that today is Flashback Friday. Today’s post comes from this date in 2017, a monument I had noticed on a visit to London the previous month. It’s a huge monument, popular with tourists and pigeons alike, right in front of Buckingham Palace. Looking at it had me thinking about just how much […]
Remembering COVID
Monday was the fourth anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaration of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Most people probably didn’t remember the date. The pandemic dominated our lives for three years, but most of us haven’t thought too much about COVID during the past 12 months. Technically the pandemic continues, but the death toll is […]
Where Is It?
It’s Flashback Friday, when I share an older post from years past. Today’s is from March 8, 2018, some thoughts on dealing with a new-to-me transit system. If you visit here regularly you know I am a big supporter of public transit. No matter where I am. My home town is Ottawa, and the system […]
Another Sign of the Times
My initial assumption, on hearing that a restaurant in Toronto was requiring patrons to sign waivers before eating, was that it was an internet joke. Turns out it wasn’t. Canada isn’t a particularly litigious society. It would never have occurred to me that restaurants would be nervous about serving meat that wasn’t cooked to death. […]
The Friendship
I’ve been derelict in posting here recently, but I can’t miss Flashback Friday. I’ve been busy with the grandkids and haven’t had time to finish any posts – but I promise to do better this month. For today’s offering we go back to March 1, 2015 and two cats who have since gone to wherever […]
Time For Tea
Welcome to another edition of Flashback Friday. Today’s post is from February 22, 2017. I know today is February 23, but my mind was wandering when I chose what to share today. I was in Cambridge and reading a history of Christianity in England that was part of a display in The Round Church (more […]
Martian Real Estate
Today’s Flashback Friday post comes from February 16, 2016. They say real estate is always a good investment; the price of land always goes up. So maybe I shouldn’t pass on the offer. From what I can see the property does have pretty much limitless potential. But investing in anything always carries with it a […]
Super Bowl 2024
Unlike millions of people, I don’t care about the Super Bowl, the American football championship, which starts a few minutes after this will be posted. I don’t follow the league. I don’t care who is playing the half-time show. The ads, which are so hyped, are now all available online – there is no need […]
Big Brother Worries Me
I have been going through some of my half-finished posts. Some are no longer relevant. Some I am finishing. This one was about half-written in April 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The ending, also in italics, is from this year. It was the Google Translate message that threw me. I know my online activity is […]
Solving The Problem
I wrote the words in italics below more than a year ago, in mid-January 2023. For whatever reason, I never finished the post. Which, as it turns out may have been a good thing – I would probably have looked pretty silly to anyone reading the post today, as I will explain once you’ve read […]
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