Bits and Pieces

On a late August evening as I sat watching darkness fall while the sun slipped out of sight beyond…

By the time you unfold the paper you’re now reading, 2013 will have come and gone and 2014…

At 11am on April 7, 2014, at Speedside United Church, we gather to give thanks to God for the life…

Those crazy, hazy, lazy days of summer are slipping fast away. I don’t think there is anyone,…

Shopping is something that I have grown to dislike. It once was a sort of social thing, as most…

I’ll bet you dollars to doughnuts there are fewer than 10 per cent of readers, of the over…

It turns out that Jenney, my scooter, and I are both addicted to bird watching. This past morning,…

From a far-western reader come comments quite frequently, and with the federal election cresting…

I slept in the other morning. When I awoke, the sun was shining at about nine o’clock high.…

Because of my long-term association of 32 years, with not one of the best, but the best weekly…

Recently I mentioned “tossing my soggy sombrero” in one of my articles. This in itself…

Though the following was tucked into my chuckle bucket, from email received well before Christmas,…

“You can take the farm boy away from the farm, but you can’t take the farm away from…

I am not, thank God, what one would call a formal gardener. Strait rows, bare ground, and no weeds…

To the readers of my column, I have long, long, been in arrears, In thanking every one of you…