It suddenly dawned on me how cold it was.  I was filling up my car a little while ago and realized that I was cold and not just a little cold either.  And then I had an epiphany. It was minus 14 and I was pumping gas with my leather jacket wide open and no…

I can still remember when I got my first calculator that would fit in my pocket.  It was in High School and it cost what then seemed like a fortune.  But it could do so much, add, multiply, divide etc.  It could even do percentages and find the square root of any numbers.  At least…

You gotta hate it when a plan doesn’t come together.  When Jason Best heard that a local theatre was going to be showing the controversial movie “The Interview” he began to see dollar signs.  Best said that he heard all the hype about the movie and its limited showing and purchased $650.00 in tickets with…

Well, that learned him.  And it certainly acted as a deterrent because he never did it again.  But what if he didn’t do it the first time? Just recently a South Carolina resident was exonerated 70 years after he was executed.  And that my friends is why I’m opposed to capital punishment.  In 1944 George…

It’s funny, not funny ha-ha but funny strange, how quickly we lose interest.  This summer when the victims numbered in the hundreds, news about the Ebola crisis was everywhere.  There were fund raising efforts happening and you couldn’t open a newspaper or turn on the television without reading or hearing dire predictions.  But now, not…

Last week I heard a teenage girl ask her father “Is Black Friday a holiday?”  When he assured her that Black Friday was not a holiday and that she would have to be in school she seemed puzzled as she was sure that it was.  After a little bit of back and forth he suggested…

I received a letter in the mail the other day from the KIA dealer inviting me to trade my 2011 Rav4 in on a new KIA.  So how did the KIA dealer know that I own a 2011 Rav4?  When I open my browser I’m undulated with ads about things I have shown an interest…

If it was attention that he wanted he certainly got it.  If you’ve been following the news lately, you have probably heard the name Franck Gervais.  He was the man who showed up at the Remembrance Day service in Ottawa in full military regalia claiming to be a retired member of an elite unit in…

So what did you do on Tuesday?  It was a beautiful day and for most of us a holiday, and I would suspect that a lot of yard work got done.  But the reason we were given a day off was not to rake leaves as appealing as that may seem.  Tuesday of course was…

Tuesday was garbage day in our subdivision and as I drove to work I noticed how unsightly it was. There were green bags, blue bags, household rubbish and a toilet at the ends of the driveways lining Kingswood Drive.   Most garbage days I don’t really notice how nasty it looks, it’s become normal.  But it…