The following is a re-print of a past column by former Advertiser columnist Stephen Thorning, who…
Opinion
Tick-tock
Occasionally I sleep in, but not too often. Mother Nature usually encourages me to answer her call…
Birthdays
Recently I had a birthday. It was brought to my attention by a Happy-Birthday phone call from a…
Christmas 2007
(My apologies to Send me the pillow.) Missing Her I still have the pillow that she dreamed on. I…
The law is the law
Though the following was tucked into my chuckle bucket, from email received well before Christmas,…
New book
Recently I’ve been holed up. It was not unlike working in a salt mine. The reason was not the…
Good news
Not often do we get exceptionally good news from the bird world. But times are changing and…
Purple martins
Wow. What an interest there is in bringing the purple martin back to Wellington County. Never…
Biological clock
“You can take the farm boy away from the farm, but you can’t take the farm away from…
The daffodil principle
Sent to me, from a friend who cares, through the magic of email, via the internet, is the…
Dawg
I don’t think there is a reader, within the hinterlands of the Wellington Advertiser’s…
When Tomorrow Never Comes
When tomorrow never comes, And my time on earth is over. Will there be a new life that awaits, The…
Late nesters
I am not, thank God, what one would call a formal gardener. Strait rows, bare ground, and no weeds…
Elora woman left town after two-day charivari
The charivari, or shivaree, as it is usually spelled in southern Ontario, is a social ritual…
Further erosion of free speech
Last winter I wrote three columns about the erosion of free speech in Canada. That’s scary…