Here are some smiles to brighten your Monday. At least I thought they were funny.
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
I haven’t been writing much about the wars in Ukraine, the Middle East and elsewhere. There’s enough news coverage that I doubt you really need to hear what I have to say. Still, today marks the two-year anniversary of what the experts expected to be a four-day war. Russia with all its military might, has […]
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 […]
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 […]
Last week I promised to post photos of the ice sculptures on Sparks Street in downtown Ottawa, part of the annual Winterlude festival. Then I ran into a snag – warm weather. With temperatures as high as eight degrees Celsius, the sculptures remained under wraps when I was downtown. Maybe they took the wrappings off on […]
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 […]
Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save. – Psalm 146:3 Somewhere I have a half-finished post from 2022 that I never got around to sharing here. In it I quoted Psalm 146, warning NDP leader Jagmeet Singh not to trust the Prime Minister, who had just made a deal with […]
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