It is winter. The first real storm of the season here on the east coast of Newfoundland came this month had me shifting into winter mode. You know it gets harder every year. We live in a country setting outside of St. John’s. My wife and I raised our
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson is the one credited with saying; “A week is a long time in politics.” The words were said when some crisis or other was sweeping across Britain during Wilson’s time in office. The thought was as true then as it is now. Stuff happens
We are but a few weeks into the much-feared presidency of a convicted felon named Donald Trump, and, despite our fears, the world hasn’t come to an end. The applecart has been well upset but that is exactly what the United States voted for. The people spoke.
The first real brush of snow for the season has softened the landscape up behind the house. First snow does that. It hides some of the summer toys that were left out in the garden. It traps the occasional basketball. Little plastic shovels and Paw Patrol toys also get
The words are from the Bible. Specifically, they are from Ecclesiastes 3. Those words tell us that everything happens at the right time. Now the passage might well apply to what happens to political parties and their leaders in the fullness of time. Justin Trudeau has begun the lengthy
There are during the Christmas season moments of quiet. They are important. Christmas is full of joy, family, turkey, chocolates, gifts and good times. It is also, as you know, place of reflection. We do allow ourselves to stray into that time warp where we meet “the ghost of
I never tire of writing about television, especially at Christmas. We are light years away now from where we were with Christmas when we got our first television set back in 1960. Television burst into Newfoundland homes when CJON went on the air. The television set really replaced the
My dad first said that phrase to me a long time ago. They were old words of wisdom and what they mean is that you should form your opinion of someone based on your direct dealings with them and not based on what others may say about them.
In the course of writing opinion pieces, it is obvious that you really can’t please everyone all the time. Differences of opinion make the world go round.
Now the angriest a reader ever became over something that I wrote was from a piece that wasn’t about
I watched the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees in the World Series this year. I am connected to the Dodgers and Yanks by an odd link. That link is school, specifically my old school, St. Bon’s.
In 1955 it was an all- boys