It was Pierre Trudeau who compared living next to the United States as being in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast might be, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. And at no time is that truer than during the US presidential elections. And we’ve…
Who is in your web?
Have you had enough spiders this fall? It is incredible the number of arachnids we have around the outside of our house right now. Mind you, having lived in Australia for four years—where you could saddle the spiders and ride them like ponies—these aren’t a particular threat. It’s not the spiders that I mind; live and…
All Fixed
--> Apparently you can correct some of your youthful indiscretions. I recently read about a new trend in plastic surgery; earlobe reconstruction, really . . . earlobe reconstruction.One plastic surgeon says that he has been doing four or five of the one hour procedures a month, and it seems to be gaining popularity. It is…
Gone. . .
For twenty years he was right there and she didn’t have a clue. Two decades ago Rita Wolfensohn’s life changed when her 29 year old son Louis moved out of the family home. From that point on mother and son had no contact with each other. That changed last month when the legally blind, elderly…
Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys
It was almost like they had had been two different debates. The first where Donald Trump was the victor and the second where Hillary Clinton emerged victorious.I didn’t watch the presidential election debate on Monday but others did. At least I thought so. The first story I read on Tuesday told me that Hillary was…
The Trouble with Trouples
It was a term I had never heard before, I understood the “Trouble with Tribbles” but what was this “Trouble with Trouples”? I came across an article the other day talking about trouples and I discovered that it is a term for a polyamorous unit made up of three individuals. It could be any combination…
Oops!
She had obviously never heard the old proverb “Revenge is a dish best served cold.” Of if she heard it she wasn’t paying attention, because it appears she wanted her revenge to be hot.I read an article this week about a Florida woman who set her ex-boyfriend’s car on fire, presumably in retribution for something…
Lost . . .
“The first thing I thought was that this is exactly what will happen when Donald Trump will be elected: It's good practice.” Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley may have joked about the recent invasion of his town by Americans, but he wasn’t laughing when he realized that Sarnia would have to pay to get them home.In…
Us vs Them
Staying on a sports theme from the last couple of weeks, albeit a different time and different game, I read an article recently about some of the original players from the 1972 Summit Series. That would be a hockey series, specifically a series between Canada and the former Soviet Union. I remember watching the last…
Spending for Gold
--> I kind of like the Olympics, I don’t watch a lot of them but do enjoy what I watch and enjoy cheering on the home team.And then I stop and think about how much the Olympics cost. Montreal finally paid for the 1976 games in 2006. Was it any wonder the Olympic Stadium was…