THE THIRD PERIOD

It is beautiful and sunny this morning and definitely feeling like spring. Despite the explosion of COVID-19 cases in Ontario and the...

One of the things I have found increasingly frustrating is that governments and their leaders seem to be held even less accountable...

I want to start by saying that none of our five children are sleeping in our basement or anywhere in our home. Teresa and I are now...

Definitely slow on this for February, I will try and get this done closer to the beginning of the month going forward. However, as always...

It is March! It has been a full year since Teresa and I returned home from Japan and South Korea. It seems so long ago now from that time...

I was a little late getting the site updated this month, but everything is up to date now. I am starting to get reminders from Facebook...

I thought I would try a new monthly post (we will see if it lasts). I have noted a few things during this month that caught my attention...

I decided that I would start a new post for my 2021 books. This should allow for easier navigation. I am also going to start this year by...

Happy New Year! I am sure many of you will be glad to see 2020 in the rearview mirror. It was a challenging year, of course, dominated by...

This is the time of year when so many best-of lists are produced. Best movies, books, television shows. Best classic rock songs (although...

This is my last post (finally!) on our trip to Japan. This final leg of our journey included a week in Kyoto, a night in Tokyo and a...

The answer is no, but ... For those of you that follow my blog you know I love reading. I read about 8 to 10 books per month. Well,...

Well, winter is definitely here. There is a little snow on the ground and it is definitely getting colder. Unfortunately with the cold...

Well, summer is definitely over, we turned the clocks back last night (when are we going to stop having to do that!). We had a great...

This is my third blog post on our trip to Japan in February 2020. In the first post, Our Journey to Japan, I tried to give an overall...

I hope everyone reading this agrees that climate change is a significant, human-caused problem that requires dramatic action, or else the...

As I mentioned in my post, Our Journey to Japan 2020, we ended up planning our trip to Japan in February because Teresa was planning to...

Well, the golf season is coming to an end in Canada, although Patrick is off work next week and we are hoping for some nice October...

Well, it definitely feels like summer is over and despite the fact that we continue to live in strange and unprecedented times, we had a...

I thought I would create a separate post with just the books of the month I pick. One fiction and one non-fiction list. This way if you...