Monthly Archives: July 2019

Certainly much of early life is about gaining knowledge, but since retiring from teaching at age 52 in 2002, I have worked more on fine-tuning and coming to know who I am. So the process has become more of finding … Continue reading →

(A man with much certainty, purpose, and inner peace) The blog name says it all; “To thine own self be true.” Hamlet’s credo has long been my own.  

A bus driver. I was always impressed by these guys because if my car-less family went anywhere, it was by bus. I was always interested enough in grades 1-5 to sit upfront where I could see the drivers and their … Continue reading →

The Summer of Our Discontent. If you want better, sunny weather, you’ll have to leave the province. Tourists won’t find much open except the zoo. The museum is inaccessible parking-wise. And the Third World Roads remain schmucked or closed. Thanks, … Continue reading →

Must have been fun with 350 poor souls exiting the boat for several hours in the dark amidst clouds of mosquitos and all as the romantic voyage came to a fated halt on E-Coli Beach.

get invited back to the exact same spot 50 years later (as pictured in Winnipeg’s Bannatyne School gym, below, 50 years before, on the occasion of their school’s 100th anniversary as the main centenary speaker. This event is typical of … Continue reading →

“since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a better fate than wisdom” … Continue reading →

Beauty, Nature, and Art today, this week, this month? If there are none, why wouldn’t you choose to mingle with any of those three? (Cherry blossom trees abloom in April, Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver–always a slice)

directed at Boomers, I note the one by BMW that uses the instrumental from The Lovin’ Spoonful’s “Summer in the City” and the one by Entresto (for heart failure) that uses Sonny and Cher’s “The Beat Goes On”!

lying.