October 2025

“I’m a Priest!” So What?

It was a dark and stormy November night back in the year of 1979. November 17th, to be exact. It was the night that the mini series ‘Salem’s Lot’ was unleashed upon an unsuspecting North American television viewing audience. It was based on a novel written in 1975 by none other than the one and […]

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“Mine‘s Better”

When I was an impetuous young man, I always had to have the best of everything. The best truck, the best motorcycle, the best clothing, the best, the best, the best of everything. If I didn’t have the best, I would sell what I had and then buy the best. It was a never-ending cycle.

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Don’t be a ‘Gorn’

This may be a crazy question, but have you ever been around someone who seems to be determined to ‘Destroy’ you, no matter what the cost? Let me assure you, it ain’t a whole hell of a lot of fun. No matter what you say or do, it seems as though you have become a

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A Lovely Visit

I decided to pay a visit to the quaint little town of Port Colborne, Ontario today, and I enjoyed it. The air was cool and invigorating and smelled of autumn leaves. As I strolled down a street in the downtown area, I couldn’t help but notice that the ‘Jehovah’s Witnesses’  were back at it with

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The ‘R’ Word

Isn’t it a shame when certain things that really should not have been gone out of vogue ended up being doing so on account of a few snivellers? It seems as though it is always a handful of crybabies that end up squawking the loudest, and ruining it for the rest of us who were

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Cindy

I received some sad news yesterday. While in attendance at a men’s meeting in the little village of Effingham Ontario, I received a text from my son Nathan informing me that my little Doggy Cindy had passed away in her sleep sometimes during the night. Born in November of 2011, she was nearly 14 years

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No Capes!

“It will be bold, dramatic, heroic” These are the words of the hilarious little character known as Edna Mode, aka “E”,  from the smash hit Disney/Pixar movie ‘The incredibles’, which was released November 4th, 2004 to a highly appreciative North American audience. The context of these words is when the Superhero ‘Mr. Incredible’ approached Edna,

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