Bob’s Meanderings: The Valley is Hillbilly Heaven
While working in Toronto and if I mentioned that I came from the Ottawa Valley, often someone would say, “You’re a Hillbilly” or “You...
Bob’s Meanderings: False Alarm
It was late Saturday afternoon, April 30th and I was having a nap. I had been raking the lawn earlier in the day. Maybe...
Bob has Slowed Down
I received a phone call from a Social Club member the other day about elections for the new year beginning in September. He wanted...
Living on an island during the 2019 flood
By Phil Cottrell
Resident of Westmeath, Ontario
As life starts to return to normal, or some resemblance of normal and as we try and catch up with...
Alex Got Lost: Finding Garbage, Environment and the Misconception of Personal Responsibility
Alexander Leach, Editor-In-Chief
Though I’ve been negligent in posting it, I love to find old garbage and wrecks in the woods.
Growing up in the 90s...
Old friendships are always welcome — regardless of how long since you’ve seen them
I read a most enlightening letter written by an American schoolgirl Samantha Smith to the attention of Russian President Yuri Andropov in 1982; a...
Bob’s Meandering on Compliments
A curious thing happened at the WDRA’s big Party in the Park recently. As a member of this community group, I was to take...
Bob’s Meanderings: WD-40 is the Cure
I’ve been bothered by a knee that aches every night when asleep. It wakes me up two or three times a night. I tried...
Alex Has Opinions: Conspiracies, Controversies, Complaints
Alexander Leach: Editor
Bob wrote his column on conspiracies last – those convoluted plots where everyone is lied to and controlled by sinister secret groups....
Alex Got Lost: Change Can Be Quick
On a trip back along Highway 17, I chanced upon Perretton Road, recently renamed from a certain unfortunately-common slur for Indigenous people. The new...