Happy New Year! I’m thinking there are a few of us wishing for some warmer weather! I’m trying to stay positive because, yes, it could always be worse. But it could be a whole lot better, too. I’ve been battling with one water bowl during this cold snap—again. On the […]
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This past week, I was called upon to drive into Winnipeg for medical tests. We left early Friday morning and travelled along Highway 11 to Rainy River, then across northern Minnesota from Baudette to Warroad, and then north on Highway 12 to the Trans-Canada. The area was under a severe […]
What if I had turned left in the hallway at the college I was attending in the fall of 1980? What if I had turned left and found a lounge chair in a window vestibule, and plopped myself there during a cancelled class instead of going to the cafeteria for […]
It sure is a good thing that our summers are as nice as they are across Sunset Country because the cold weather we’ve had over the past month really has me questioning why anyone would want to live here. Over the past week, I’ve had to spend my days outside […]
Good thing I don’t work on commission around here. If I was looking to get paid for every accurate prediction, I’d be in big trouble—or a lot skinnier since buying food might become a more difficult accomplishment. Here’s a look back at my NFL predictions for the just-completed regular season, […]
Several years ago, the Ministry of Natural Resources developed zones across the province based on geographical location and similarities in characteristics of water, which they use to manage our fisheries. In Northwestern Ontario, there are three zones across the southern part of the region, stretching from the Manitoba border to […]
As always, we plan and prepare much longer than it takes our special day to come and go! Here’s hoping everyone enjoyed themselves and got a belly full—the problem seems to be that our bellies continually get full! I overdid it on Christmas Eve so I had to take it […]
Who are you? Can you answer this question without using a name title? You are not a daughter or son, woman or man, a wife, a husband, a mother, a father, a single parent, or a grandparent. You are not a supervisor, or a secretary, divorced, or a homemaker, a […]
2014 is on the horizon, only a few hours away. New Years is always the appropriate time to commit to make changes in one’s life. We like to make resolutions focusing on health issues. Our most common resolutions include losing weight, exercising more and complaining less. I have in the […]
As soon as Boxing Day has passed and I know for certain that Christmas has departed and taken my visiting daughters with it and I have managed to quit sobbing and have dried my eyes, then I have a tremendous urge for lists. These lists need not necessarily be of […]
The holidays and the end of another year finally are upon us, so this will be my final column of 2013 and the second part of the “year in review.” As summer came upon us in 2013, so did an incredible human tragedy. Early on the morning of July 6, […]
Many people spend hours cleaning prior to Christmas, including me. I wore out two toothbrushes and an entire bottle of “Mean Green” getting the grout in my tile all polished up. I lucked out with fewer walls to wash this year since I just finished getting fresh paint in more […]
