In my last post, I mentioned the economic downturn that we are in now and how difficult it is to remain optimistic for young and old. The young have dim prospects in the job market and the old have seen their nest eggs shrink with the falling markets. Time to get inventive, like the organ […]
After years of telling us that we should see the glass half full, there now seems to be a shift to – seeing the glass half empty – as not a bad thing. Here’s why. Pessimists prepare for the worst. However, once things are resolved, the results are usually never as bad as they thought
My daughter is in Toronto for the week before she heads back to Thunder Bay to do her second in a series of 3 practicums for her teaching certificate. True to form, she has managed to pack out her vacation week. First, she got a job as a camp councillor for a Spring Break children’s
Spring always amazes me. When something as spare and barren as this – can become this in a matter of days, it makes me believe in divine intervention! A week ago I brought Forsythia branches in for “forcing.” They are for me the definition of Spring. All the bland, grey sparseness of Winter disappears in
I had to go to the garage, yesterday, to get a new wiper blade for my ’98 Honda Civic. I had had a small victory about a month ago, re-attaching a blade that had come off in the snow. However, when it happened again, I decided to cave in and get a new blade. Every
I know that it is easy to have preconceived ideas about people in certain occupations. For one thing it makes life easier to believe that doctors exist to heal, teachers live to educate and writers strive to create, chronicle and/or entertain. However, we have all met doctors who are artists, teachers who are entrepreneurs and
I have decided that I am not a poor speller. My problem with typos stems from the arrangement of letters on the common keyboard. Why anyone would put “f” so close to “d,” such that any word that ends with a “d,” often ends up ending with an “f” – are you still with me?
I may have written about 3-D printers before. They have come down in price, such that they are almost affordable for the average family. These printers actually create 3 dimensional objects, such as, wrenches, bicycle chains and probably knitting needles, to name a few. Just as our regular printers lay down ink to produce pictures
I almost forgot to post today. I am finally back at working on this website that I started in October, when I ran into all sorts of compatibility problems, such that I had to uninstall everything and start from scratch again, except that my login had somehow become invalid and I couldn’t just start again.
