Thanksgiving is about Gratitude, not Turkey
I was perplexed by Reader’s Digest 66 reasons to be thankful this Thanksgiving. Many of their reasons seem to be way off my way...
Bob’s Meanderings: “The People’s Princess” 25 years later
September 1st brought back a vivid memory. It was a quarter of a century after the Paris tunnel car crash that Diana, Princess of...
Financial Focus: What is Inflation?
Inflation is the price increase of a basket of goods and services over a year. It’s tracked by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and...
Alex Got Lost on the Terry Fox Walk
Apparently, I am terrible at following directions.
During the Terry Fox Walk, the path wound through the Logos Land Park – a collection of trailers...
A Regret – Dating Other Cultures
At my age, I’m limited from ever having a date or two with a young attractive girl from other cultures. They are everywhere these...
Agawa Canyon Tour
Back in September 2013, a well-planned chartered bus trip for the Riverview Senior Social Club deep into Northern Ontario went off the rails and...
Bob’s Misadventures
A visionary is a person who is surrounded by others who can’t see. It seemed like that the other day at the Pembroke Regional...
Memories of summer threshing from 1958
By Maynard van der Galien
I never heard of fires being started by overheated bearings and causing a fire in the days when grain was...
Bob Flew the Coop
It was early years in my already checkered career. I was employed in an Ottawa firm but not enjoying it. One employee had left...
Ox: The Beast of Burden
A friend recently asked me, “Did you know that oxen cannot stand on three-legs?” Oxen, I thought their habitat was the Himalayas. I said...
