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July 16, 2022Snowbird of Paradise

Five O’Clock Boats

You know what it is like when you visit a different country or culture, even if you speak the same language, there is so much you don’t understand? It is a moment, or a month, of realization that you are an outsider. When I first immigrated to Canada, I was bewildered by much that was […]

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April 26, 2022April 26, 2022Snowbird of Paradise

Life’s Mysteries, Real and Fictional

Fair Warning by Michael Connelly If you have ever had doubts about what happens to your DNA after you submit it to a genetic analytics company, this book will add to your concerns. It raises the fictional (I hope) possibility that DNA information might be sold on to multiple other companies to do with as […]

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December 8, 2021December 7, 2021Snowbird of Paradise

History Ancient and Modern

E Is for Evidence by Sue Grafton Private Investigator Kinsey Millhone must solve a murder in order to restore her professional reputation, and she must do so without smart phones and with no internet to aid the detective work. She must rely on interviews and logic to figure things out. She records notes and compiles […]

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November 5, 2020November 5, 2020Snowbird of Paradise

Signs Of The Times

Here are a few photos of miscellaneous images in my world this week.

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July 22, 2020July 22, 2020Snowbird of Paradise

Coincidence, Correlation, and Cause.

At 2:30 AM last night. I was having a bad night because I had insomnia, so, when my next door neighbour’s motion-sensor light came on right outside my bedroom window, I noticed. In fact, I noticed enough to get out of bed and look out of the window. I didn’t see anything, so I went […]

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July 2, 2020July 2, 2020Snowbird of Paradise

Who Can Name This Bird?

When I was out for a walk yesterday, a passing police car stopped to watch what I was doing. I think I probably looked suspicious. Perhaps someone phoned in to say that there was a woman standing outside their house and taking photos of their tree. In fact, I was trying to identify a bird […]

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April 18, 2020April 20, 2020Snowbird of Paradise

There Is A Story Here

A house that had previously escaped my notice called to me today. I was actually looking for interesting doors to add to the Thursday Doors collection of Norm 2.0. When I saw this one, though, I wasn’t sure if it would be appropriate for that setting because it isn’t the door that is intriguing. The interest […]

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March 24, 2020March 24, 2020Snowbird of Paradise

It’s a Mystery

For all of you who are housebound, watching too much TV, and wishing you had something to do, I have a remedy. I have a mystery for you to solve. Yesterday as I was out walking around my neighbourhood and keeping the required two metres from other people, I came across an ID card for […]

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July 3, 2019July 5, 2019Snowbird of Paradise

The Mystery That Is Elephantis 2 Bitts

I saw something odd today and I thought I would see if you can make sense of it for me. On a sidewalk bench near my home, there was a painting on stretched canvas next to a discarded yellow safety vest. I wondered how they got there and decided that there are a few possibilities. […]

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March 3, 2016Snowbird of Paradise

Helicopter Mystery

During the night, at around midnight, a helicopter flew round and round above my neighborhood. I am assuming it was a police helicopter, but it wasn’t chasing anyone because it kept coming back. So, what was it doing? Were they looking for someone? [Interval] For the second day in a row I have listened to the […]

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January 24, 2016Snowbird of Paradise

A Spirited Discussion

People talk about the human spirit all the time as though we all know what the spirit is and what the word means, but no one actually defines it in any useful way. The dictionary makes attempts, and Dictionary.com has thirty-one different takes on it, but they all boil down to the idea that the spirit is […]

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