Dec. 4, 2015 The world divides broadly into two groups of people: those who like clowns and those who don’t. Also those who like parades...

Dec. 11, 2015 You can’t get blood from a stone. Or a turnip. Or, as it turns out, me. It may be in me to give, as the Canadian Blood...

Dec. 18, 2015 One encounters over the course of one’s life a limited number of people of whom it might be said that they are adorable....

Dec. 25, 2015 For me, the Christmas season doesn’t begin on Black Friday. It begins on December 1st, the anniversary of Mr. J.’s death...

Jan. 6, 2016 Recently forensic anthropologists have posited that Jesus was likely of normal height for his time – that is to say,...

Feb. 19, 2016 I stepped away from center stage some time ago, ceding the spotlight to my children and, with it, the drama attendant in...

Apr. 8, 2016 While rifling through some archival, dog-related papers (certificates of vaccination, vet bills, pet insurance, etc.), I...

Feb. 12, 2016 I have just come back from a couple of weeks spent in St. Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, helping my daughter and daughter-in-law...

Jan. 15, 2016 Four years ago my husband and I moved from a condo in London, Ontario to Port Stanley, a little community perched on the...

April 15, 2016 The other night, while doing the dogs’ Last Pee, I commented on the night sky. On a clear night Port Stanley’s skies are...

Apr. 22, 2016 For what it’s worth. I’m very grateful that I never had occasion to consider whether or not to have an abortion — all my...