the author at the helm of his (former) boat on one of the rare occasions it was working
Three Important Building Blocks of a Fulfilling Retirement
“Six months into retirement, they fall dead into a plateful of spaghetti.”
Other essays: Posts on various topics I think readers may find interesting or amusing
Aging Out of Our Home: Suddenly or Gradually, the Time Will Come
Our next place almost certainly won’t have an impossibly starry sky and an ocean view
Chiac, Surzhyk, and how New Brunswick Acadians actually say “Moose”
Language is a fascinating aspect of human existence. It evolves – sometimes in ways many of us wish it didn’t – and changes in response to its surroundings.
Walking in the Shoes of Another
We Canadians are often smug when it comes to how Americans see the world and their role in it...
Politics in decline: Stoop as low as you want, as long as you have a “good reason”
As the snake said when he eventually sank his fangs into the woman who had befriended him, “You knew what I was when you took me in.”
Peter Lougheed and Me
He was a giant in more ways than a young university student in the early 1980s, who grew up elsewhere, could possibly realize, but in ways that have endured.
Bus driving adventures
Everyone has “one of those days” at work from time to time and driving a motorcoach with more than 50 seats can present its own set of challenges in that regard.