Hello, readers, listeners and fans. With the arrival of spring, I feel a new energy to complete all the projects I’ve been working on, with little progress for … well, I’m embarrassed to say how long. Another thing that’s gotten me excited is that I have found a new source of assistance to get some […]
I enter 2026 as a senior citizen. Yes, I turned 65 last week. It’s a natural time to reflect on life. And the turn of the calendar is another common prompt to try to sum up the previous 12 months. I have to say I’m really looking forward to the end of 2025. It’s been […]
My wife and I watched Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere recently. It was not what we expected. Bohemian Rhapsody. Rocketman. I guess it was these two recent films about rock stars that set my expectations. But we can go back to Walk the Line (Johnny Cash), What’s Love Got to Do with It (Tina Turner), […]
You still have time! This year marks the sixth time I’ve participated in the Great Cycle Challenge to help fight children’s cancer. And as luck would have it, this is the hottest cycling season I’ve ever experienced. On Friday, 8 August, I rode 20.5 km, through the Green Belt around Ottawa, past the “Burnt Lands,” […]
You cannot deny Trump’s enthrallment any more I don’t know how to express the depth of my disappointment and disgust with the display in the Oval Office today. It reminded me of nothing less than a doddering, wilfully uninformed grandfather lecturing his grandson about the younger man’s ingratitude for the revocation of his inheritance. Meanwhile, […]
The problem with lies from Trump or other authoritarian leaders is that others believe them, or worse, act as if they believe the lies. That’s why we see people like US Secretary of State Marco Rubio revising his statements on Ukraine because they contradicted his president’s previous lie. It was so refreshing, so uplifting to […]
It started as a normal day. In the afternoon, I took Daisy to the dog park, where she romped around with a dozen other dogs as the dog servants and poop-scoopers chatted. From time to time, a whirl of dogs would eddy around my legs, then whirl away. Then it happened: something or somethings collided […]