Well, it’s that time of year again. The time of year that Canadians from coast to coast look forward to with wonder and longing. No not spring, that’s right it’s time for, a drum roll please, r-r-r-roll up the r-r-rim.All over our fair country, Canadians are finishing their coffee and with baited breath rolling up…
Horton Hatches the Egg
(Read from beginning to page with animal friends running away) Yep this is the same Horton who Heard a Who, and this is where we first hear his philosophy “I meant what I said and I said what I meant, an elephant is faithful one hundred percent.” Is the book familiar to anyone? This was…
Give Me the Moon and Stars and
Darn, I wish I had of thought of that. Quebec resident Sylvio Langevin has filed a lawsuit claiming sole ownership of the Earth. Not to mention all the other planets in our solar system, several of the moons and all of the space that separates them. Langevin’s explanation was that he wanted to collect planets…
The Lorax
Read the Lorax to the end of “There is no one on earth who would buy that fool Thneed.” How many of you have read the Lorax? Anybody catch the movie yet? For those of you who aren’t familiar with the story of the Lorax, he continues to beg the Once-ler to stop cutting down…
Picture This
Who would have thought that Eastman Kodak, the company that invented the hand held camera and brought the world the first pictures from the moon could fail? And yet back in January Kodak filed for bankruptcy protection. For over a hundred years the name Kodak has been synonymous with photography, so what happened? In an…
The Puzzle of Singleness
Where have all the married couples gone? At least on television. Have you noticed that there are very few married folks on television anymore? These days you would be hard pressed to find a couple in a traditional marriage on prime time these days. In Big Bang the only marriage couple you see are Raj’s…
One Million Dollars
If you were buying a microwave and vacuum cleaner from Wal-Mart, would you try and pay for your $476.00 purchase using a million dollar bill? Probably not, but police say Michael Anthony Fuller insisted he could pay for his vacuum cleaner and microwave oven with a $1-million bill. Fuller insisted the bill was real but…
4 The Puzzle of Childing
Do you remember TV families when you were a kid? There seemed to be more extended ones then there are now, you know more families with several generations living under one roof. The Waltons had their Grand Parents living with them, the Beverly Hillbillies had Granny, the Munsters had Grand Pa and the Adams family…
Staying Close
Have you heard about the family in Ontario that is appealing the water bill that was received by their late father's estate? Apparently, when their dad passed away he left the tap running in the bathroom and it was three weeks and $586.44 worth of water down the drain before his body was found. Three…
The Puzzle of Parenting
My oldest niece has a philosophy, actually she has many philosophies but I’m only going to share one with you today. Her philosophy on parenting is this: The government should put birth control in the water and people would have to pass a parenting test in order to get bottled water. Makes sense to me,…