
Contentment is for Cows, the Blog, is ten years old! When it was created, the comic strip was supposed to be the star of the…

My father was still working full time at age 68. When I asked him if he was thinking at all about retirement, he answered that…

From loud explosions to snide comments made at a cocktail party, the normal, human, universal response is to freeze. A couple of heartbeats are required…

One evening, circa 1975, my boyfriend was driving me home. We were having an enormous fight; I had talked to another man at the bar….

If given a choice between losing your wallet or losing your cell phone, which would you choose? When was the last time you went a…

Nobody storms the Bastille with their mouth full. If Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette had had the insight to change the tax system to give…

I like clothing that serves me well for the long run. I don’t like purchases that are essentially a fling. In 2018 I bought a…

“Life is long. Youth is short.” Or so says a favourite character in Contentment is for Cows. Ahh, the joys of youth. All that energy,…

On impulse one evening I googled ‘short story contests Canada’. And guess what? The CBC short story contest is under way! The deadline for submissions…