Restless at the age of 60
At the age of 60, I found myself with four connected life events that were very high on the standard stress scale. My marriage...
Margot Kidder’s connection to the Ottawa Valley
I penned a letter to the editor of the Ottawa Citizen last week in response to their almost three-quarter page article on the death...
Pleading the Fifth
US President Donald Trump has recently threatened to plead the fifth in regards to his obstruction of justice investigation. One of Secretary Hilary Clinton’s...
Hundreds attend Ford rally in Renfrew
I was there when Pierre Elliott Trudeau visited Renfrew in the late 1960s when he was running for the leadership of the federal Liberals....
Op Ed: Beyond the Election: Protecting Farmland for the Future
Farmland is vital to farmers and communities. It is vital to food production. It is vital to every single Ontario resident. Farmland is more...
Laughing Gas was Demoralising
Two different dentists, two different cities, 10 years apart, and neither was sure why I didn’t get high after inhaling laughing gas. It could...
The farmer takes a wife or is it The Wife?
For 26 years I wrote a bi-weekly column for a Christian publication (Christian Courier) based in St. Catharine’s, Ontario. I took over from Jim...
