Hotel bar rooms in the 19th century normally were quiet and orderly places. Governments…
Columns
Consumer loyalty has become a sometime thing today
Consumer loyalty is at best “a sometime thing.” There is all kinds of evidence to…
The Daddy Day
Imagine being married to someone who publishes your personal life in a newspaper that goes…
Bubble wrap
I’m not sure how it happened, but I gave birth to an athlete. It’s as perplexing…
Songs of summer
The songs of summer are as essential to this season as the smell of sunscreen and the feel of sand…
Retirement
Recently, someone asked me, "When do you plan to retire?" I laughed, saying that…
Screwed
Washing dishes is a dangerous thing for me. I think a lot. That’s usually trouble. Like when…
Ignorance is not bliss
It is through education that our young people come to know what society cherishes. By means of…
Major storm struck Wellington County in July 1870
Extreme weather conditions and storms are fascinating subjects for historical study. Wellington…
Its winter
This past morning, at first light, when I looked out my second-floor bed and sitting room window,…
A supercycle
Why is our economy behaving so differently this time? Ordinarily, after a business contraction…
Four men changed pleas in 1921 attack on jailor
Note: This is the second part of the story of Sam McArdle, Joseph Hobson and John…
Does province plan never ending debt fees?
After paying off your mortgage, what would you do if your bank continued to send you a bill? Anyone…
Battle lines
My house has become a battle of the sexes. It’s girls versus boys. Good ole estrogen versus…
New arrivals
From cold, cold to warm, warm, the weather switched almost overnight. It was from heavy jackets and…