I liked the ending. Somehow it seemed fitting. I could have done with a little less action though – it seemed like one light-sabre battle after another, to the point they all seemed the same. And, spoiler alert, you know the good guys are going to win. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker brings to […]
Four years ago I wrote a post I called “Climate Change For Dummies,” my thoughts on environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio’s hysterical reaction to living through a Chinook, a climate phenomenon I only knew from books. This week though I was in Calgary, Alberta, and more or less experienced a Chinook. I say more or less […]
Maybe it was the subject matter. Maybe they wanted too much money. Maybe they don’t want to celebrate the past. For whatever reason, it was absence that struck me most about Goalie, the Terry Sawchuk biopic I watched on a flight this week. Absent from the film were any mention of National Hockey League team […]
Some thoughts originally posted in 2014 that you may have missed. One of the major differences I have found between the North American and European communities I have visited is the matter of walls. In North America we really don’t have any. That’s due, I assume, to the newness of urban life on this continent. […]
Stuck in meetings Tuesday and not able to finish today’s planned post. Given the season, I thought it reasonable to re-post this piece from 2016. I never sampled these round pastries that the Germans call snowballs. I’m not much into sweet stuff, and I had never heard of these things before. It seems though that […]
They never saw it coming. I think that is a large part of the appeal, why millions of people visit Pompeii every year. It is not just that the city is well preserved thanks to having been buried for centuries under ash and lava. It is that we can empathize and identify with the people […]
It doesn’t get much sadder. The United States has devolved into a cartoon democracy. The House of Representatives will vote this week on two articles of impeachment. With the vote expected to follow party lines, a Senate trial is a certainty. Certain also is his acquittal, as the Republicans control the Senate. The entire thing […]
What is the point to celebrating Christmas? I’m sitting in my kitchen as I write this, doing some Christmas baking, making cookies I associate with Childhood Christmases. As I write I am aware this post will appear on Sunday, the third one of the Advent season. For Christians it is a festive season. The […]
I won’t repeat the words. He called me names I won’t repeat here. I don’t use that sort of language. Then he hung up on me. All I did was talk about ducks. You would think by now this telemarketer would have removed my number from his system. I recognize his voice, though his name […]
Andrew Scheer resigned as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada Thursday, the same day I received this Christmas card from him. I guess he remebers me from when I worked on Parliament Hill. He really had no choice. After the October election Scheer said he was staying on the job and would fight the next […]
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