Not often do I write an “I told you so” column, but let me suggest that you hang this…
Bits and Pieces
Winters coming
This past week I have spent almost every day outside in the fresh air and sunshine. Though the…
Up, up, up
I have been toying with the 26 letters of the word-forming alphabet for more years than I care to…
Thunder
The lightning flashes and the thunder rolls as a downpour of rain splashes heavily on the overhead…
Rainy weather
“Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day” is a remembered childhood statement…
Im not kidding
“Mares eat oats And does eat oats And little lambs eat ivy, A kid will eat ivy, too,…
Hoe hoe hoe
That is not the Ho, Ho, Ho that you hear at Christmas time – I’m talking hoe, hoe, hoe…
Fair is fair
Is it fair that all fall fairs fall in the fall? That queer quirk of a query struck me as I was…
Chick talk
Well, folks it looks like the January thaw has come and gone. The high temperatures, the strong…
Chi-Chemaun
Blaaough-blugh-blugh! There just ain’t no way, any how, any place, that one can…
Creaking crickets
On a late August evening as I sat watching darkness fall while the sun slipped out of sight beyond…
Happy New Year
By the time you unfold the paper you’re now reading, 2013 will have come and gone and 2014…
Olive Cox
At 11am on April 7, 2014, at Speedside United Church, we gather to give thanks to God for the life…
Summer
Those crazy, hazy, lazy days of summer are slipping fast away. I don’t think there is anyone,…
Shopping
Shopping is something that I have grown to dislike. It once was a sort of social thing, as most…