christmas
Eating up the Hill: Turkey lunch with the trimmings
I generally have turkey once a year: at Christmas. Which is just about the right amount for me, actually. Especially given that between different dinners and assorted leftovers, I usually…
Eating up the Hill: Turkey lunch with the trimmings
I generally have turkey once a year: at Christmas. Which is just about the right amount for me, actually. Especially given that between different dinners and assorted leftovers, I usually…
Eating up the Hill: Liberal caucus don’t call it Christmas party
Last week was the annual office Christmas party. At my last job, each of the managers would bring in dishes they had prepared for an afternoon potluck. However, while I’m…
Eating up the Hill: Liberal caucus don’t call it Christmas party
Last week was the annual office Christmas party. At my last job, each of the managers would bring in dishes they had prepared for an afternoon potluck. However, while I’m…
Cardboard cutout
I’ve heard a lot of stupid things in my time. Hell, I’ve probably said more stupid things than a really large number of people who’ve said stupid things, combined with…
Christmas 2015
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Santa Baby
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Christmas in Wildrose Country: That noise on the roof may not be Santa Claus! It could be the UN, here to steal your turnips!
ILLUSTRATIONS: Will Santa have to come armed and armoured like this to be safe on Alberta rooftops in case the province’s loony right mistakes him for a UN trooper bent…
My Caregiver Transformer Christmas
I've been thinking a lot about how in my family, we plan special family occasions and how we change our plans or even cancel at the last minute. And I've…
Home.
Next Tuesday at noon, our daughter Natalie arrives home for Christmas. Jim and I will meet her at the airport and then together, we'll drive around the corner to where…
Holidays and holy days – and the dross and drivel which confuses and clouds over them
Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter…Yom Kippur, Hunakkah, Passover… Ramadan: these symbolic expressions of union, communion, gratitude, faith and love – what do they matter? Except that they do. As a naturally reclusive…
Peace
Christmas in the Trenches, written and performed by John McCutcheon, as Christians around the world contemplate the birth of the Prince of Peace, in a barn. “Each Christmas come since…
A Christmas charitable act by Liberals in Brantford-Brant – but charity will never be enough
On December 22, I was up in Brantford helping Liberal Party candidate and friend Danielle Takacs and several fellow supporters (9 all together) join many other volunteers collecting Christmas Baskets…