It has been a long, painful, journey both literally and figuratively since I had a bad fall while in California. It has also caused me to rethink a few things; the fragility of my health, the risks of wintering in the USA, and the wisdom of never again […]
You may have been wondering why there have been no new posts on this blog for a few weeks. If so, I thank you for noticing! The reason is that I had a bad fall resulting in a broken wrist and fractured pelvis. I call it a fall […]
If you ask someone what sloth or slothfulness is, they’ll probably talk about idleness or laziness. They might think about the animal called a sloth and of its slow ponderous walk or the animated cartoon sloth in the film Zootopia. They probably would not be thinking about sin. […]
The process of disconnecting from Facebook started out easily enough. I put up a post to tell my friends and family that I was planning to deactivate my account and two days later, that’s what I did. It took me a few minutes to find the right page […]
Imagine that you are going to be away for a long period of time, and so you ask your good neighbour to take care of the house for you. He says “Of course! No worries. I’ll be happy to.” Then he says, “By the way, we’ve got guests […]
I am so spitting mad right now I can’t think straight. How could Facebook not know that Steve Bannon and Cambridge Analytica were messing with our minds through its website? And why isn’t someone under arrest for this already? I have loved Facebook. I have loved seeing my […]
I have a story to tell you, but it goes back a few years, so make yourselves comfortable. It starts forty years ago this month, in January 1978, when the Russian satellite Cosmos 954 exploded on re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere. It sent debris flying over 124,000 square […]
I am a snowbird who travels south for the winter. When I get there I have a bird of paradise plant on my patio.
