#59 Waste not, waste not
Hi darlin’: There’s an election coming soon … I’m not really deeply convinced elections can change very much. Seems as… FULL STORY
Anne Cameron
#58 The world is full of predators
Hi Darlin’: We might call it the summer which almost wasn’t. July was a wash-out; the first three or so… FULL STORY
#56 Knock, knock, who’s there?
Went to the Canada Day birthday party down at the Museum building. Took my fourteen-going-on-fifteen-year-old hound mix “Min” with me, on… FULL STORY
#55 Justin’s protracted adolescence
Hi, Darlin’: Justin has gone to Japan to try to make nice and come back with some improved trade deals. After… FULL STORY
#54 Writes of Spring
Hi, darlin’: April was mostly GRAYpril. We had the sodden sky sitting on the treetops. Rain in its many iterations… FULL STORY
#53 A skeleton for Ontario
The TV news had images of a gray whale washed ashore, then reports of a baby Orca found dead on… FULL STORY
#52 A tale of two landscapes
Hi darlin’, Last week I had to appear before the Spanish Inquisition in Campbell River. I won’t bore you with the… FULL STORY
#51 What’s golden doesn’t glitter
Hi, darlin’, It’s not exactly fog, not even mist, just this interesting and endearing creeping-upon-us of wreaths and ribbons of… FULL STORY
#50 Co-dependants & crow dependants
Hi darlin’ I suspect that by the time a person, gender nonspecific, reaches fifty or more years of age, she… FULL STORY
#49 Upon entering 2016
There is white shyte everywhere. Everything frozen and still. I’m at my big front window, using a damp cloth to… FULL STORY
#48 ‘Tis the Season to be Shopping
Every now and again it marvels me that any of us can manage to sleep at night. One-third of the… FULL STORY
#47 Strange creatures abound
Hello darlin’, Yahoo, monsoon season on the west coast of the Island! It’s not cold yet. But the wind comes and… FULL STORY
#46 Bloviation Black still haunts us
I had six kids trick or treating on Hallowe’en. My daughter got four. We don’t have a lot of kids in the… FULL STORY
#45 So long, Harpy
So long, Harpy. Hello, Le Dauphin Can Justin Trudeau, Le Dauphin, begin to heal relations with First Nations? That won’t… FULL STORY
#44 Voting Day 2015
It was Voting Day. Todd came over and off we went to vote. In a village where everyone knows everything about… FULL STORY
#43 Fishing with Todd
There are some days which nestle comfortably within memory, days which are gems, touched with magic and filled with quiet… FULL STORY
#42 Thou Shalt Not Kill
They’re closing borders in Europe. Hungary has put up the kind of fence the US wants to build between itself and… FULL STORY
#41 A child washed-up like seaweed
One little boy dead on a Turkish beach and we are flattened with rage and grief. I think the last… FULL STORY
#40 Attack of the attack ads
Hi darlin,’ I am already sick of this looming election. If I had enough money… or any money at all… FULL STORY
#39 The Hemlocks
Hi darling’, Egad it’s hot! I was out before six this morning drenching the flower containers and the bean patch. I… FULL STORY
