This is an excerpt from the Chapter called ‘The Mainland’ in a book I wrote back in 2004. Most of our trip to the mainland has been forgotten except for our trip to Fundy National Park. The Bay of Fundy is like a funnel open to the sea. When the tide comes in the water
A man goes into a restaurant and is seated. All the waitresses are gorgeous. A particularly voluptuous waitress wearing a very short skirt and legs that won’t quit came to his table and asked if he was ready to order,”What would you like, sir?” He looks at the menu and then scans her beautiful frame
My goal for 2015 was to lose just 50 pounds. Only 60 to go. I ate salad for dinner! Mostly croutons & tomatoes. Really just one big, round crouton covered with tomato sauce. And cheese. FINE, it was a pizza. I ate a pizza. How to prepare Tofu: 1. Throw it in the trash. 2.
The Manitoba Herald Goes Viral The Manitoba Herald was a Canadian newspaper that had a short life. It was published only from January to August of 1877. But, “Google ” Manitoba Herald ” and you’ll find an article, supposedly by one Clive Runnels, about the influx of American liberals to Canada, that has gone viral
I’m not sure that I liked the Kroger Store in West Chester anyway, but I’m kind of angry that I have been banned from the store. Yesterday I was at my local Kroger to buy some Purina ‘Moist and Meaty’ dog food for Diesel and our three pugs. I have no idea why but the woman
You will be reading “The Chaos” by Gerard Nolst Trenité, written nearly 100 years ago in 1922, designed to demonstrate the irregularity of English spelling and pronunciation. Someone said that if you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the
Today, our kids think about cobblers as perhaps cherry of peach. I tend to think of shoe repair, perhaps it’s my age. The story below ended up in my email inbox the other day and smiling happened. Some of you will remember Klonsky’s Shoe Repair Shop or one like it just down the road from
Perhaps the Ten Commandments are a little out of date. As an atheist, I really don’t give a hoot about having more than one god, as I don’t have one in the first place. The graven image thing and the lord’s name in vain mean little to me. I am a big believer in thou
I’ve lived in Montreal, Toronto, Goose Bay Labrador, Cape Dyer on Baffin Island on the DEW Line. In my wildest dreams could I have anticipated life here in Cincinnati when it snows! Yes, we have had one or two, maybe three, what I would call serious snow falls in the last SEVENTEEN YEARS, we’ve lived
Perhaps this is why some people don’t fly? A woman was flying from Melbourne to Brisbane. Unexpectedly, the plane was diverted to Sydney. The flight attendant explained that there would be a delay, and if the passengers wanted to get off the aircraft the plane would re-board in 50 minutes.