Oh dear Mr. Carney, I thought we’d handled this little matter of yours that’s certainly not your fault but definitely a little verbal peccadillo you seem to have. Remember?...

Of course it is all orchestrated. Or it seems so. For example, why is this Spring here in this fair country the coldest since 1967? Why that year? I’ll...

Sometimes I think about the raccoons I fed during the orange sky days of a year ago, out there in the wilderness. Yesterday we had some wicked gusts of...

What is it with these people charged with creating campaign slogans? They obviously reached the point of drunken desperation late into the wee hours to have come up with...

Yes, I know the world is going to hell and it is all very ugly so all we’re left with is banality. And so that is what this writer...

Oh for heaven’s sakes! Are there dunderheads running the world now? Their magic tricks and deception play like a scratchy old vinyl in the background of our lives now....

People are wearing things. They’re sporting blue bracelets and outrageous tattoos and bald heads or beards or flags or make-up or decals or pins or memes on teeshirts and...

And so it was that Moe was standing half-way down my walkway with his cellphone in hand. I like Moe. I’ve met him before. He delivers packages. He’s from...

There are two types of people in this world: the introspectors and the exospectors. Well… there are actually three if you count the people who have no spect at...

It was too cold. That’s all I’m saying. It has been a long and rather temperate summer and these colder nights and now days, although logically they shouldn’t be,...

At the front of my hovel is a cedar bush long overgrown now. The birds love this bush and often nest there. The robins love it most of all...

And so, I had my cup of coffee and the cat was fed and the morning looked grimly cloudy but at least not cold and it was a Monday...

Now, I could write about the way the leaves on the maples are beginning to fall without that cold snap at night that drapes the forest in colours. I...

Some days we wake up in dream memory of a Gainsborough landscape with the soft light promise of a sweet warm day in the sun and the green fields...

Here is some unsolicited advice from an old woman living in the wilderness of Canada. I mean well. There is something going on in the world that you cared...

And so the Puppet Masters smiled. Now children, it is not difficult. Not difficult at all. There’s this thing called the third option. It always exists. It always has....

Please note this is a humour piece which is not something people may want to read depending on the state of your country and how demoralized/angry you may be...

In the morning, the bobolink sings. It always heartens me—listening to the morning chorus of creatures waking up to the sun singing. Imagine. When was the last time any...

Now, Godot the raccoon, now aptly named Myrtle-Godot arrived plump and tired and fuzzy at dawn for what would be her morning feed. She laid her cool fingers on...

1. Try not to get born in the first place. * 2. If born, don’t expect that the mere happenstance of your birth entitles you to be an idiot....