It’s an iconic timepiece, possibly the best known in the world. Looked to me like the paint job had been touched up for the coronation. Everyone calls it Big Ben, but that’s not it’s formal name. It’s actually the Great Clock of Westminster. And the Great Bell is what makes the memorable sound. The tower, […]
Some songs are earworms. They get into your head and inhabit your brain, whether you want them to or not That happened to me decades ago with a song that I never did hear in its entirety. It was by the Canadian band Refugee and the song is called “Sunrise in Zimbabwe.” As I remember […]
Calendar dates are just arbitrary numbers. As Carolyn Arends sings, “every day is New Year’s Day.” But we don’t always approach things that way. 2024 is a clean slate. How will you spend the year? I saw the new year in the way I have for more than 30 years now. My wife and I […]
My original intention was to pontificate on 2023, talk a bit about the high and low points of the year. To prepare for that I looked at the post from this day last year, to see if I had made any predictions for the year ahead. I didn’t. Instead I gave you a number of […]
They’re on everyone’s bucket list, one of the most visited tourist sites in the world. And they look like the world’s biggest Lego structure. Well, maybe that Is an unfair description of the pyramids in the Cairo suburb of Giza. They certainly are an impressive site/sight. Seeing them once should be enough. It isn’t as […]
My daughter wanted to do something a bit different for her birthday last year. Usually we invite family members over for birthday cake, This time she wanted to change the routine. With our family, getting together can be easier said than done. We don’t all live in the same community, or even the same continent. […]
Many years ago I hosted a daily noon-hour request show at Ottawa’s CHRI-FM. I had mixed feelings about it. The plus was the interaction with the audience. Radio is a solitary occupation, and those who called in with requests were a reminder that there was an audience out there, that the songs I was playing weren’t […]
The week between Christmas and New Year’s always seems different somehow. It is as if time has slowed down.In Canada, Christmas Boxing Day and New Year’s Day are statutory holidays. Given that, many people take the other three days of that work week off to get an extended vacation. There are fewer cars on the […]
Today is Boxing day – and I have no idea what is on sale. That may be because there is really nothing I need. Yes, I have plenty of wants, but my life is no less fulfilled if none of those ever happen. I think though it is more the way society has shifted. This […]
Of course, there is no point to Christmas on it’s own. Good Friday, and then Easter, are what give it meaning.
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