Looking For Part-Time Work To Supplement My ODSP, It Should Be Easy… Right?
It has been a long long long time coming, but I believe now is the moment to start looking for a job. Nothing major, at least not to start with.…
Family
Health Update Thirteen Years In The Making & How Canada’s Healthcare System Helped Me Survive It All
I have no idea how I survived the past decade… I mean, look at those photos. Thirteen-years of health issues all put together like that, it’s remarkable I’m still able…
Hawkesbury buries it’s only remaining waterfront in tonnes of sharp rocks because the Little City just can’t have nice things
…just found out the best chip-stand in the region is finally open — actually, Grenville’s ‘Jos Patate’ has been open since March 26, but I just crossed the bridge into…
The Lambda Fifth Columns: Part 3 (of 4), Fall 1972
This is the third part of a new series of Fifth Columns featuring my columns from 1971 to 1973 in the Laurentian University student newspaper Lambda, that inspired me to…
The 2025 boy name list, from Aabhaan to Zyris
Welcome, dear reader(s) to my fifth annual look at Alberta baby names, beginning with those assigned male at birth. You may be wondering why I have this obsession with names.…
Here’s why couples don’t have kids anymore
My wife and I raised three sons, with reasonably successful results. Today, in our early dotage, we are witnessing the raising of our first grandchild, Johnny. I thought it wouldn’t…
Little Woody, SK
Found my Great Grandpa in the Morning Leader from Regina in November 1923, for a farmland purchase that was $19,500. On the same page is a mention of Little Woody,…
Grief
There is an intercession in Anglo-Catholic services that ends with “…and anyone else for whom our prayers are desired”. I’ve always liked this bit because it drives home what my…
Connie Eaves, mother in life and science
A trailblazer who eschewed politics, identity and recognition in favour of a tenacious pursuit of life’s secrets Like many women of her age, Dr. Connie Eaves’s career in science was…
Isolated for the Holidays
I haven't forgotten to write up Day 3 of the Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence Conference - I WILL get to it (all my notes are made and I can't…
Isolated for the Holidays
I haven't forgotten to write up Day 3 of the Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence Conference - I WILL get to it (all my notes are made and I can't…
Isolated for the Holidays
I haven’t forgotten to write up Day 3 of the Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence Conference – I WILL get to it (all my notes are made and I can’t…
Should We Bring Back The Lord’s Day Act
No I am not going all religious on you This would be more of a Day for Humanity, a day that would not belong to the billionaires and millionaires but…
Should We Bring Back The Lord’s Day Act
No I am not going all religious on you This would be more of a Day for Humanity, a day that would not belong to the billionaires and millionaires but…
Dads That Stay Home Are Less Sexist
Moms and dads both can take parental leave in the majority of countries around the world, and researchers have found in places that men take parental leave that the dads…
Small Kindnesses
When my mom died, we asked people to bring rocks (she liked this Jewish tradition of remembrance) to put in a basket in her memory. Some folk painted rocks, some…
The Communist Family
From each according to his abilityTo each according to his needs* If you did not know the source of this you could easily mistake it for a description of the…