It seems that as far as my life is concerned, the ninth year of the calendar decade has some special significance. Let me explain. It’s all in the anniversaries you see. Let’s run through...
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2019 has lots of interesting anniversaries coming up – one for Maria I won’t elaborate on. There are also Teddy’s 10th birthday, 40 years since we moved to Georgetown from Montreal, 50 years since...
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, one of my favorite times of year was the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. I saved a few holiday days so that I could leave...
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No, I don’t expect the Almonte waterfall to look like Fort Lauderdale on Christmas Day, but we may be about to have a rare event here in the Valley – a green Christmas. That...
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The days continue to get shorter as we approach the Winter Solstice. By now the sun doesn’t come up until 7:45 AM and it’s setting by 4:20 PM. We have a little snow out there,...
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I’ve been on the Web for over 20 years – at first with my own coded website, and later on with a blog. Some of the posts here date back to 2002. They originally...
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One December tradition we’ve had for decades is to make a new monthly calendar for next year. Each month we put a new sheet up on the fridge to help keep track of things....
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Is it just me or is it getting more difficult to act and – more importantly – be honest in today’s world? The on-ramp to the Road Less Traveled seems to have more potholes than...
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The news of today was dominated by the story that the General Motors Oshawa assembly plant would close next year after more than 100 years of operation. I remember touring this plant on a...
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We’ll be spending the month of November in Almonte this year. This hasn’t always been the case for at least part of this gloomy month. In 2007 we were in the Mediterranean, starting in...