The problem with a .38 special is that it has no stopping power. One highway patrolman shot his assailant three times and his assailant still managed to kill him. That
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Monthly Archives: September 2011
comfort food
I had Kraft dinner for supper. Well, actually, it wasn
twin towers
I was sitting at my desk writing when the phone rang. It was my friend Valerie. She was very upset. She said,
earthquake
There was an earthquake today. 6.4. The house sort of rumbled and shimmied briefly. Thank goodness the 6.4 was well out in the ocean. Close in and it would have done significant damage.
We keep being told get ready for the big one. The only person I know who is ready for the big one is my daughter. She
Cookies
When I got my first invitation to give a reading, I was terribly flattered. It
Some of us aren’t Vikings
He peed on my shirt. When I fell into bed the night before,
Dry Rot
This is an old house. By Canadian standards, that is. Not old like in Sweden or Italy. Old enough to have a certain lean to it. It
stove wood
I built a woodshed last weekend. It looks like something from the Beverly Hillbillies. My only defense is that come the fall, the rain will start.. Wet wood doesn
Rob Ford’s Ferris Wheel
At one time it was Toronto the Good. Then it became Toronto the Smug. The people who lived there believed it was superior to everywhere else in Canada. Torontonians were supposed to be more cultured, better educated, more literate, more sophisticated than their country cousins. Winnipeg might have the Royal Winnipeg Ballet or Rainbow Stage or The Winnipeg Art Gallery but that was small potatoes and look at the downtown. Decaying. The Portage and Main area haunted by people who sniff gas and drink cheap sherry in the stairwells of parkades. In any case, real culture was in Toronto. That
Pollution
