Check It Out: Anxiety is like a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
Someone wrote, “My uncle always used to say he was more nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.” I guess that’s what you call being anxious.
What McNab Place means to me
I was asked one day what McNab Place meant to me. As a tenant of McNab Place, it is the following things: McNab is a home to many fiesty and patient people. It is a home that the people take pride in.
Attrition, drones and delusion shape Ukraine war’s fourth year
“Breathe deeply, calm down and don’t go running to stock up on food and matches,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told his citizens one month before Russian tanks…
Just A Gal From Glidden: Freedom at 16 and 202 kilometres of trouble
July 2, 1985. That date is burned into my memory. I had just turned 16 a month earlier and, yes, that was the historic day Katie Drummond got her driver’s licence. Freedom at last.
REMEMBERING WHEN: The cat caught a bird
Our late father loved and would do anything for his birds. He was kind to all the animals we ever had, but the wild birds that frequented the bird feeders outside our home…
Check It Out: What can Canada learn from Europe’s mistakes?
The following quote by an American writer is appropriate for this week’s missive: “Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have time to make them all yourself.”
Epstein fallout raises more questions than answers
“It’s amazing how the arrest of a 66-year-old man in Norfolk has raised the spirits of the entire country,” a reader wrote on the letters page of Britain’s Guardian newspaper this week.
Just A Gal From Glidden: Still afraid. Still showing up. (Preferably at 2:30.)
Let’s face it. No one likes going to the dentist. Well… maybe the odd person. A very odd person. When I was little and it was time for a dental appointment, I was absolutely terrified.
Pop 89: Ashes & Snow — Part 2
Lent is a time for fasting, praying and the giving of alms. Many people, when they think of fasting, see it as a way to give up the foods they love in the portions they prefer…
Check It Out: MP stands alone as he refuses his annual pay raise
Actor Tim Allen once said, “You can’t keep sleeping on my couch. I want the memory foam to have a chance to forget about you.” It was a line from the comedy Last Man Standing…
Growing Through Grief: The pang of envy
There will always be someone more successful, happier, richer, brighter than you. From our own limited perspective it can appear others have got it all together.
Cuba’s revolutionary era appears to be nearing its end
After more than six decades in power, the revolutionary system built by Fidel Castro and carried forward by his allies appears to be running out of momentum.
Just A Gal From Glidden: Confessions of a reluctant pianist
This may come as a surprise to some of you — I very much enjoy listening to classical music. I know. I know.
