This summer has been a good one for fireflies. A couple of weeks ago we got spectacular natural fireworks. And the cicadas are literally...

Falling off your bike is not something I would wish on anyone. Well maybe Idi Amin, or Pol Pot or some anonymous torturer in a prison in ...

Attended the staff end of the year party last night and made the speech I avoided doing during the more formal occasions I attended previ...

Shane, a western classic that was made into an iconic film starring Alan Ladd was the novel this week. It was a strange read. I enjoyed i...

This edition makes a full year I have been writing a weekly blog. I have enjoyed it most of them time as I hope you have. It is remarkabl...

I retired from teaching this week. Or, I just left the profession. Or, I became a writer (although that was a part time thing before). An...

Lilium is back in the news. I wrote about this company a year ago and now they have their five-seater electric jet built and tested. Well...

This is remarkable. The face you are seeing is computer-generated. It is a result of a new approach to programming which provides a datab...

I’m listening to a novel I read long ago, ‘Shogun’ by James Clavell. The audio recording is horrible, because it was done before that was...

My wife and I went to the Art Gallery of Ontario to see the Impressionism in the Age of Industry exhibit last weekend. It was not disappo...

The Vice President of the United States has promised that the US will land astronauts on the moon by 2024. To a person of my age, that da...

The weather seems to have broken, at least for now. I was in Nashville last week on holiday and it got to 24 degrees on Thursday. It was ...

It is still cold and snowing in southern Ontario as winter drags on. I have read that spring will come early this year, but it hasn’t yet...

Pushing through is something that a lot of type A personalities do. The concussion experience has taught me that there are some situation...

We got a ‘snow day’ this week. There was freezing rain for about 12 hours and they closed the schools. I still get that little thrill whe...

I just finished listening to the actor Rex Linn read ‘Blackjack’, a western by Robert Knott based on characters created by Robert Parker....

I read an article this week that made me laugh. It wasn’t supposed to be funny, but it was to me in an intentionally ironic way. It was w...

Reading one of the Wild Card (https://www.goodreads.com/series/40686-wild-cards) books by George RR Martin. Very good. Creative smart and...

It snowed this week, and stayed. Pretty early even for us. Got to be global warming. Of course, my mind eventually went to the phrase ‘w...

Losing is tough. Deciding on a career change is tougher.