A recent email written in Scottish dialect got me thinking about languages and how I have made them…
Columns
Loving the family rebel
Do you ever feel like drowning or disowning your kids or grandkids? Don’t do it. Drowning…
Clawback II
Continued from last week: “Maybe I could accept it if it weren’t for some of the…
Birthdays
Every year along about the first scattering of snowflakes in the foremost weeks of November, I have…
A ‘must’ shift
Many years ago, in an unprecedented exercise of leadership, President Franklin D. Roosevelt…
Flossing ambitions
Parents are not supposed to determine their children’s career path. Children are supposed to…
The biggest problem we face these days
Nowadays all too few are aware of the biggest problem for many people: they are lonely. When…
Elora-born man became noted American churchman
From time to time this column features a Wellington County native who has achieved success and…
Ice break up on the Grand River came late in 1934
Note: This is the second part of an account of the 1934 spring floods on the Grand River and its…
Misleading claims offering health, beauty and brand new lifestyles
Almost like the snake oil salesman of yesteryear, food companies want to claim that their products…
On a roll
As the matriarch of my family, I am constantly amazed by what my little brood can do. Take, for…
Greater use of judgement
Long ago, bands of English artisans, Luddites, rioted against mechanization and destroyed…
Unchecked greed
One of the many things that need an overhaul in the business world is the role of company…
North Americans are intoxicated by debt
Treating an inebriated alcoholic with another drink is known to be counter- productive. Yet even…
Officials feared sectarian strife after 1847 execution
Last week’s column related the events of March 22, 1847, and the death of Richard Oliver…