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UP UP AND INVEIGH
Here’s another good word: inveigh. I can’t remember ever using it until now. After inveighing against the passing of towns (and people)...
Jun 4, 20232 min read
TWO UNSURPRISING THINGS
Nobody is surprised about the following two things. First, the Canadian prairies are vast. I’ll bet that “vast” is the most-used...
May 31, 20232 min read
MOOSE JAW SUPPLEMENTARY
They get supplementaries in Parliament, so I am going to take one too. A Moose Jaw Supplementary. I forget to say yesterday that Moose...
May 28, 20232 min read
HOW DID I MISS THAT?
After nine days, we got back in our moho. That was not in the plan, but we had a good time in Alberta anyway. Thanks to great rellies,...
May 27, 20233 min read
ENJOYING OURSELVES WITH LEE MARVIN
The guy next to us in Cochrane looked like Lee Marvin, so I am going to call him Lee. If you don’t know who that is, watch Paint Your...
May 21, 20234 min read
WHADYA THINK ABOUT THAT?
Let us agree that human geography is multi-faceted, to say the least. Everybody has stories: where they came from, successes and...
May 19, 20233 min read


CALAMITY LITE
If you have reached WWiner age, you know all about calamity. As it is said, man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly up. Women too,...
May 18, 20233 min read
HOW YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN CALGARY
# 1 Country Music. It’s ubiquitous. Omnipresent. Monopolistic (is that a word?) Good if you like it, not so good if you don’t, but it...
May 13, 20233 min read
REVELSTOKE AND ROYALTY
Prior to this weekend, we’d driven through Revelstoke about a thousand times (or maybe 30), stayed there once, and missed the place...
May 8, 20233 min read
TOP TEN THINGS SO FAR
#10 , All the airbags work on this contraption. So does everything else. Bonus right there. #9. Good time on the Victoria waterfront...
May 5, 20232 min read
THOUGHTS FROM THE LAUNCHING PAD
Here are some things we have all heard: · Shit happens. With cash, it happens less. · He who dies with the most toys,...
Apr 30, 20232 min read
DEAR WINERS: ARE PEOPLE STUPID?
We haven’t left in our motorhome yet, but that doesn’t mean we can’t do some human geography exploration. Enter Bob, not his real name....
Apr 15, 20233 min read
A BUNCH OF WINERS
Nobody has ever said to me “ You are pretty darned logical.” Not once. Not ever. To illustrate, I refer to a couple of earlier posts on...
Apr 11, 20232 min read
ANNE AND PAT
During the pandemic, I thought I would blog. Along with a million others. Something to do, I guess. Blogging can be a narcissistic...
Apr 10, 20232 min read
THUNDERSTRUCK
For a few decades, I have had a recurrent thought: how can you not be absolutely thunderstruck just by being alive on this planet? How...
Apr 9, 20231 min read
LES
Les died. There you have it. Got cancer and died I was just reading from my “thanks” file, which I have not added to in months. ...
Apr 9, 20231 min read
THANKS FOR THE HOSPITAL
Three days ago, on March 4th, I got out of Jubilee Hospital in Victoria. 70 years ago to the day, I was born there. Wrinkly both times, I...
Mar 8, 20213 min read
Altruism
Covid has made Zoomers and Whatsappers out of all of us, even we creaking Luddites. As a result, I have spent the weekend thinking about...
Feb 1, 20216 min read
O CANADA
Canada is a great place, just let me say. I just came back from the grocery store. Not much of a line to get in today. The door monitor...
May 18, 20202 min read
Covidiary 7
Yesterday was Mother’s Day. In our town, the sun shone and the blossoms blossomed. Hopefully there were a lot of happy mothers. My mother...
May 13, 20202 min read
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