Juxtapositions
Sunday, December 29, 2024
Flitting
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Being curious, I am easily distracted and flit from one brief obsession to another. Yesterday a post on Facebook from someone I didn't k...
Thursday, December 26, 2024
A swan song
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At a Christmas party last week we met people who'd worked with the UN refugee agency as well as some professional and ex-professional ph...
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Not my pigeon
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We have an extraordinary, trajicomic situation on our hands tonight involving three Iraqi-Canadian gentlemen and three birds. A lost pigeon...
Sunday, May 8, 2022
From tumbling water to still water
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On Saturday, following a complicated route to avoid Highway 17 for the sake of a change of scene, we overshot the entrance to the Eau Claire...
Friday, May 6, 2022
At Mattawa
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In the Ojibwa language Mattawa means “Meeting of the Waters” --- specifically these are the waters of the Mattawa River and the Ottawa (aka ...
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Still cold
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It's March now, and the windchill is still in the minus-20s, although the ice-clearing operations on the Rideau River allow us to see cl...
Sunday, February 27, 2022
Fast forward
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Hard to believe it is still February, so much has happened. Since the dramatic end to the truckers' protest there has been no lull in th...
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