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Monday’s Reflection
Canadian weather is like a politician. It makes promises, then doesn’t deliver. Today, for example, was a nice spring day. Almost summer-like. By mid afternoon it was 15 degrees Celsius. It seemed certain winter was over. People were out walking in shirts. Cyclists were enjoying snow -free roads and paths. Dog walkers were stopping to […]
Friday’s Question?
There seems to be chaos everywhere you look these days. Wars. Rising prices. Political turmoil. The list goes on. Are you paying more attention to the news, or are you trying to tune out the world and just get on with your life?
Impromptu Art
In a weird way, it makes sense. Public art, created by the people, just outside Canada’s National Gallery. When you are inside the gallery you are required to wear a sticker that shows you have paid the admission fee. Each day the sticker is a different color – that way people are less likely to […]
A Song For Our Times
When I first heard this, a couple of days after its release, my first thought was “what a brilliant song!” my second thought was: “there is no way radio will ever play this.” Amy Grant hasn’t released any new music in a decade. Probably most people have no idea who she is – her heyday […]
Sending Oil to Cuba
Working in Parliament, I learn what issues motivate Canadians to write to their MP demanding action. The one that has me confused at the moment is Cuba. It isn’t that I don’t understand the issue. The United States has ramped up its blockade of the island nation that has been in place more or less […]
Happy New Year!
I’m a bit late. I hope 2026 has started well for you. I’ve been taking a break from this space for the last couple of months, more or less. Partly because life has been busy (Christmas, guests, work and friends and family who needed some extra time) and partly because I have been wondering if […]
Axing Kimmel
The headlines had it wrong. Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t taken off the air for anything he said about Charlie Kirk and his killer. It was his comments about Donald Trump that got him in hot water. When the news story first broke that the late-night talk show host had been taken off the air, I was […]
A New View
My wife and I moved residences earlier this year. Just down the street, but a couple of hundred feet higher. I do have some reflections on the process that will be coming this fall, but today just a few pictures of Friday’s sunset. I don’t remember it looking like this when we lived at street […]
Looking Back
What follows here is my second post on this site, from August 30, 2014. I had no thoughts then about continuing for more than a few weeks. It has been fun, more fun than I would have expected. I want to thank you for reading and being part of this journey. Back then I didn’t […]
Technological Changes
I remember those days. Sometimes back then there was actually something on television worth watching. Admittedly not very often.
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