If a Klondike gold trader put her thumb on the scale to benefit the prospector and not herself, you would think she was crazy, wouldn’t you? Why would anyone cheat to lose? Well, that’s what I’m wondering about with respect to our elections. Not only are our election […]
For someone who doesn’t leave the house very often, it comes as a bit of a shock to actually go somewhere and get yelled at. Yesterday, while driving to Home Depot to buy a light fixture, I had to navigate my way through a horrible intersection. It is […]
Regular readers of Snowbird of Paradise may remember that I once wrote a blog post about finding regular contributions to my back-lane garbage. Someone has been leaving their dog’s poop, carefully collected in green compostable bags, in one or other of the bins I use for garden waste. […]
This made me laugh. If it is a duel between local gangs, I’d say they are equally inept. Their spray-painted tags cancel each other out. There seems to be as much red paint as black, which I think makes them even. And, in case the taggers […]
Austerity kills, and do you know who it kills? Poor people. New immigrants. The elderly. People with addictions. Young artists. Unemployed people. The disabled and infirm. Single parents. I don’t care what political landscape you inhabit, you only have to look around to realize that some of us […]
The Red Cross is universally admired for the great work it does. Its members show up at crises of all kinds all over the world, and they come prepared. They respond to floods, droughts, fires, and human tragedies of all kinds. They know how to organize, provide shelter […]
I’m thinking about drinking, but not in the immediate “I fancy a glass of wine” sense. It’s more along the lines of “Why do Edmontonians enjoy being penned in to drink outdoors, in the daytime, in public?” My previous blog post was about being excluded from a beer […]
I am a snowbird who travels south for the winter. When I get there I have a bird of paradise plant on my patio.
