In my lifetime, I have consumed more than my share of coffee. I come from a long line of coffee drinkers. My dad especially loved a good strong cup of brewed coffee. And my mother, in her later years, referred to weak coffee as “slop.” When I was an infant, […]
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I have boat legs and the keyboard is sliding across the desk. I’ve just stepped off the “Morning Dove” after four glorious days of sailing on good old Rainy Lake during the annual fall cruise with the Rendezvous Yacht Club. And I cannot imagine a better way to welcome the […]
Last weekend was my annual fishing weekend with my brother-in-law, Tom Foster, and his son, Ben, here on Rainy Lake. My son, Brendan, who came in from Calgary, joined them. Tom and Ben live in Waterloo while Tom has a cottage on Healey Lake (near Parry Sound), which has more […]
I may have mentioned it six or 12 or 30 times before, but just in case you missed it, I am a freshly-new grandmother—just out of the oven. I am a new grandmother for the second time, a fact that still astounds me. The astounding part is the privilege of […]
Three fishing tournaments took place over the weekend here in Sunset Country and three different species were the targets. In Nestor Falls, the third-annual Musky Cup took place on Lake of the Woods while the Shoal Lake Last Chance bass tournament happened on Shoal Lake and a bass/walleye combination tournament […]
With the cold snap that hit us last week across Sunset Country, the fall season announced its arrival. It’s always somewhat depressing when summer is winding down because it always goes by so quick—even moreso this year because we got short-changed a little bit with the late winter and spring. […]
With the cold snap that hit us last week across Sunset Country, the fall season announced its arrival. It’s always somewhat depressing when summer is winding down because it always goes by so quick—even moreso this year because we got short-changed a little bit with the late winter and spring. […]
How is it possible that seven weeks have zipped by since I last made notes in this column space? I have, in fact, been gunning to sit down and tell you for the past three weeks all about what’s been happening in my neck of the woods. Yet somehow the […]
I was thinking about firsts the other day. Life is full of firsts when we start out. First tooth, first steps, first day of school, first date, first kiss. I suppose as we age, the number of firsts shrinks slightly—or at least we have to try harder to find events […]
There is something about the smell of wood smoke in the fall. We arrived at the cabin Friday night and the temperature inside read barely 10 C. It was chilly and called immediately for a fire. Stored in an old trunk was the kindling created by my brother-in-law this past […]
First off, I would congratulate all the members of Unifor #1075 who fought and won a tough fight for fair wages and a secure retirement for all workers at their Bombardier plant in Thunder Bay. The decision to strike was not an easy one for these members, who for nine […]
There have been many important churches in my life. There was the loving, caring, large “meeting place” of my childhood, attended by my aunts and uncles. And my great-aunts and uncles, my grandmother, my parents’ cousins, and our neighbours. Oh, how I remember the singing when the whole church came […]
