My trusty Concise Oxford Dictionary defines nostalgia as a ‘sentimental yearning for the past’. For some reason, the beginning of summer puts me in a…
Buck Martinez, the play-by-play commentator for the Blue Jays (yes, I watch baseball) is 69 years old. And he looks good, doesn’t he? A friend…
Being biased against persons who are ‘old’ makes no sense. Everyone will eventually be a part of the elderly demographic or they will no longer…
Happy Half-Year! We have reached the mid-year point of 2018. For those of us who make New Years Resolutions on January 1, those commitments made…
The original Starbuck was the first mate on the whaling ship the Pequod in the classic novel by Herman Melville, Moby Dick. Starbuck was a…
It can be hard not to feel envious at times when someone we know has achieved success. If the person at the next desk makes…
I don’t know for sure, but I think just about every human on the planet has their own personal ‘if only’ story. When I was…
I was casting about for something interesting to read and I came across ‘A Visit from the Goon Squad’ by Jennifer Egan — who could…
Hindsight is a smug know-it-all. How many times have we lamented our circumstances over a favourite beverage and said, “In hindsight, I should have…” Doesn’t…
…and here we are… January of 2018 and Bella and characters are all returning for Chapter Ten, ‘A Little Haunting, A Little Taunting’. Art is…