Former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, during the general election of 1964 said, that “a week is a long time in politics.” Consider now the roller-coaster ride that has been the American presidential race in recent days.

After the disastrous performance of incumbent President Joe Biden

Joe Smallwood said once after the provincial Liberals had lost a by-election that the people had exercised their “God-given right to be wrong”. It was well said. We must remember that and such concepts like ‘the will of the people’. It is for left leaning people like me a

It was entirely appropriate that it rained on July 1st this year. The rain gave a sombre air to an event that was to mark the return to our War Memorial in John’s of the body of a young man who is now our Unknown Soldier.

Big movie musicals aren’t what they used to be. I have fond memories though of some of them from the past. I always loved South Pacific and The Sound of Music and even Oklahoma. A musical I really took to was The Music Man with Robert Preston and specifically

It was circumstance that brought the stars into that configuration and alignment that night. It was a May evening, six or seven years ago, when because of circumstances, my scattered family came to one place and time together.

The wife of one of my three sons

It is funny how emotion sneaks up on you when you least expect it. I think of myself as hard as nails in matters of news and information because I have spent so many years in that world and

I understand the necessity of keeping emotions

There was no Sunday Mass to attend this month. There hasn’t been Mass for many months now. It is a sign of the troubled times. I miss that. Church in all its forms and with its many faults still provides structure and an opportunity for reflection. It is good

The words are those of William Shakespeare from the play Julius Caesar and they reference a critical moment when action to change things in our world is possible and will be rewarded.

So it was that a couple of weeks ago here in Newfoundland government decided

It was the purchase of a used pickup truck that took me into the shadows of the new reality that grips us in the 21st century. The truck was a beater, as the expression goes. That expression covers a vehicle which is far from new but is something that

The Atlantic may be quiet in Lark Harbour today. The sun may be shining and the waters calm, but people will never look at the ocean in the same way again. A terrible accident killed two men when they were thrown into the water when their open boat overturned.