Reflections

Happy Saturday! Tomorrow is my dad’s birthday. Still going strong at 86. So tomorrow, we’re headed over to mum and dad’s for birthday cake and coffee. My two brothers and their wives will also be there. We’ll have a few laughs and celebrate my dad being here for another trip around the sun. Remember having […]

Happy Saturday! When I woke up this morning and hopped on Twitter, I discovered it’s Catherine O’Hara’s birthday today. Then, when I jumped on the IMDB, I found that, actually, her birthday was yesterday (March 4th). It’s entirely possible I have different memories of Catherine O’Hara than many of you. She’s become well known for

Happy Saturday! This past Tuesday was being touted on social media as “Twosday” because it was 2/22/22. It was also the 25th Annual Birthaversary. If you’re unfamiliar with the Birthaversary, I wrote about it here. It was a quiet day. There are still restrictions in place up here. The primary of which, in regards to

Happy Saturday! As many of you know, I’m a big hockey fan. In particular, I’m an Edmonton Oilers fan. I’ve followed the team since 1979, their inaugural NHL season. Back when Wayne Gretzky was in his prime and setting records left, right, and center, I was a bartender and we always had the game on

Happy Saturday! This has been the craziest week I’ve had in a long time! First and foremost, I’ve been writing my butt off. I finished the full first draft of a thriller serial. I finally got my new glasses, so I can see the screen crystal clear again. I’ve just put eight books into my

Happy Saturday! DIET stands for “Did I Eat That?” Congratulations to Paul, Sandy, Dina, Sherrie, and Bill for guessing correctly last weekend that Tracy and I are the vegans. (The five of you should keep an eye on your inbox in a couple weeks. There may be a little something special show up. Shhhh…don’t tell

This summer, we had to put new shingles on our house. Our next door neighbor, as it happens, does that for a living. As does his son. So, being good neighbors, we hired them to do it. During the course of conversation with the father one evening, I mentioned that my wife, Tracy, and I

Happy Saturday! People fascinate me. At least half the time, we don’t know why we do what we do. I suspect the other half of the time, we’re operating on autopilot and don’t care why we do what we do. Last week, I had a devil of a time coming up with a post to

Happy Saturday! I hope your 2022 is going well. Part of last week’s post, I spoke about my time as a bartender and the two customers with their B-52s, and it reminded me of another experience that included B-52s. My friend, Kevin’s eighteenth birthday. Kevin actually turned eighteen some four months before I did —

Happy Saturday! It’s been three weeks since I’ve posted one of these. As I said in my last post, with Christmas and New Years on a Saturday this year, we all have a crap ton of things to do, so I’d pick it up again today. I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday!

It’s been my personal tradition every Christmas season, for many years, to sit down at watch Leo Buscaglia’s Stories of Christmas Love and I did that last night. Back in the stone age, it used to air annually on PBS. I eventually bought the DVD from PBS as part of a set. (If you’re curious,

Yesterday at breakfast, my wife, Tracy, turned to me and said, “It’s December 10th. It’s been a year since Merry left us.” I had been thinking about that just a few days before but, in all the everydayness that we have around here, it slipped my mind. I immediately felt a twinge of guilt. How