Driving along Interstate 91 in Vermont on the way home from vacation last month I saw the signs frequently that read: Moose – Stay Alert. They were in the traditional black and yellow caution colours. (Since I was driving I couldn’t take a picture, the accompanying photo is from the internet and not exactly what […]
I doubt things have gotten better as photography has gone digital. If anything it is probably worse. I think I first saw this picture about 1972 as we were packing our belongings in Montreal for the family move to Ottawa. It was in a box of photos, all black and white, that I think […]
The Donald Trump show took on new highs, or lows, last month and I resisted commenting. At its height I was on vacation in the US, which gave a different perspective on the circus than I usually get at home. Now though I feel I have to weigh in, but probably not the way you […]
It shouldn’t be that difficult. I need a new phone. I know what type I want. I can try it out in the store. But no-one will sell me one. I figured for once in my life I was in sync with the times. I am a huge fan of BlackBerry phones and the new […]
It has been decades since I last read a book on biblical end times prophesy. In that case it was Hal Lindsey’s The Late, Great Planet Earth, which sold millions of copies back in the early 1970s. Russia Rising, from Mark Hitchcock is the latest in what I guess can be described as genre non-fiction. […]
More than a thousand posts later the ideas keep on coming. It was August 30, three years ago today, that I began regular posts here. Today I’m going to quote some of that very first post (in italics) and add some random thoughts that have occurred to me as we have wandered together. Why did […]
As we walked along Old Orchard Beach at night it seemed every hundred metres or so there was someone or a group of people with sky lanterns. I had never heard of such things before. My first thought was that they are a fire hazard, an accident waiting to happen. There were two reasons for […]
As I sat on the beach reading this volume I wondered a little if others were noticing and wondering why I was reading a book on marriage. Then I shrugged mentally – after all, why shouldn’t someone who has a good marriage read such a volume? There’s always something to learn. People did notice and […]
For the opening pitch there were fewer than 100 people in the stands, looking rather lonely in a stadium that seats 6,000. Welcome to perhaps the lowest tier of professional baseball. The Old Orchard Beach Surge play in the Empire League, a group of independent teams not affiliated with organized baseball. The Ballpark was built […]
I have to admit, I was tempted to reject this book when I read the first line. But that would have been silly. So I read the whole thing. Liz Johnson, according to the blurb on the book’s cover, fell in love with Prince Edward Island on her first visit. I guess love is blind, […]
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