It’s happens sometimes when you’re sitting alone at 2 am watching the last embers of a dying fire – your life passing you by. Being the observer, it’s still you, only it looks different in retrospect. Instead of years, it’s measured in feelings and faces and opportunities won and lost. With the past being so…
“Silently closing her bedroom door/ Leaving a note that she hoped would say more” – Beatles’ ‘She’s Leaving Home’ (ibid., 2,3,4,5,6,7) I suppose, in many ways, this is one of those stories that every parent dreads … a child felt unloved. “Picks up the letter that’s lying there/ Standing alone at the top of the…
Over the years, I’ve often wondered how it is that little things can make a big difference. Take the words “please” and “thank you” – my dad use to say that civility doesn’t cost you anything; and that you attract more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. If these things are true, then…
Just recently, a friend’s young dog was hit and killed as it wandered out on to the highway. With the thought that she might appreciate the words, I shared with her the following story which I had written when our own, much older dog, passed away a few years ago. Young or old, pets make…
Each year you probably become inundated with Christmas songs. I understand completely. Yet, with the unavoidable on its way, I got reminiscing recently and it seemed like someone or something was opening up my heart– like opening up the front of my upright piano and plucking the strings inside. This was from a far away…
“Is there anybody going to listen to my story?” — Girl by The Beatles “It seems to me,” she began, “that people who live in glass houses shouldn’t be the ones throwing stones.” As her righteous indignation rose, she climbed up onto her soapbox of morality – like Moses on the mount – and let…
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Looking back of my memories growing up on Rondeau Bay, I can honestly say that it’s the place where I learned some of my best lessons in life. It happened so long ago, yet through the fog of time, I can still see examples of what life was like – shining out, like a lighthouse…
“Fred”, my wife called out, “that pig’s heading for town”! Sure enough, as I scanned the fallowed farm field, there she was … head down and going as fast as her stubby feet would carry her lumbering body. Well over 100 kilograms worth of determination! ‘Oinkers’, as our kids nicked named her, started life as…
When my Dad passed away, he left a collection of old records – mainly from the ‘big band’ era of the ‘30s and ‘40s including: Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Artie Shaw, ‘Fats’ Waller, Duke Ellington and, of course, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians. Plus, those great vocalists, including: Frank Sinatra,…
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