Most schoolchildren can recite the rhyme “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” But when he arrived in the Americas what did he find, really?…
A better, more accurate description of a graphic novel is to call it sequential art. This term gives a little more respect to the artist…
Grocery shopping is the one regular household chore that people complete together in a common space. Everyone in the store, doing the same thing in…
Interview questions on the radio last week were all about what lessons people had learned from their mothers. The answers were usually along the lines…
This week I am recycling a favourite previous post. It seemed a fitting analogy while we ride out this storm called the third wave. The…
Dear Readers, I must confess, I am languishing. Yes, languishing. Say that word very slowly and it’s almost sexy — in an Austinesque, lazy laudanum…
If you are at all like most of us, there have been times in your life when you’ve wished you could slow everything down, read…
The time has come, the Walrus said, C.S. Lewis Almost everyone knows at least one whole poem or a few lines from a few favourites….
Every couple is unique, and like the couple in last week’s laundry story, only the couple themselves know and understand what brings them together, what…
Decades ago, a friend who had been married for perhaps 2-3 years told me about a fight he and his wife had had. While his…