Bits and Pieces

When I looked out of my window two days before sitting down to write this column, the sun was…

I now believe what the weather forecasters have been nattering about when reporting the weather,…

For almost five years now, a newspaper clipping has clung, scotch-taped, to the dusty wall that…

Hey! Hey! Hey! You’re not going to believe this, but you are never too old to learn. I got…

I slept in the other morning. When I awoke, the sun was shining at about nine o’clock high.…

Prior to a weekend just past, a phone call came from a neighbour who lives a couple of country…

I finally got around to cleaning up my living room coffee table the other day. It was piled high…

Periodically, when I’m a little busy, when time runs out, and a deadline lurks, my thinker…

Fall has come early this year. The not so warm days of mid August, and the sharp drop in…

I do very little shopping; I don’t need to. I have very few wants or needs. But I do eat; it…

Have you hugged a tree today? Well maybe you should. The thought struck me the other day as I sat…

In a younger year, preteen and beyond, I was exceptionally fortunate in having a chance extended…

Recently I have been scooting here and there, all over the countryside, doing many little things…

It was a brand new, Mennonite-constructed two storey barn with second floor dormers and an…

Because I am in the middle of moving from urban to rural, with the distance consuming a great part…