Confessions of a Progressively Irrelevant Teacher

This week, close to 40 of my former colleagues were handed their termination notices. 40 or more others took a buyout in the weeks preceding...

I stand at my window. Bright snow on the distant mountaintops. Clouds drift up the valley from the south. Not long ago, that same sky was fi...

This is my great great aunt, Jane McNaught.  She was born in the mid 1800s and grew up on the family farm near Glen Morris, Ontario. She was...

Real estate appraisers look at many things when they appraise the value of your home. Size, quality of finish, materials used, number of roo...

The chair wants to be pink. I want it to be white. For the past three weeks we have been engaged in a battle of wills- me as the aggressor a...

First the watch stopped keeping time.  You ordered a new one but it wasn't a priority item, so it would take over a month to ship. Ti...

Yesterday was my birthday. All things considered, it was a pretty good day. I talked to all my kids and a few other relatives. I got m...

the light from a star takes years to reach your eyes it is there but you can’t see it flaming in space for years before it reaches ...

I watched the movie "Little Women" a few weeks ago in the fabulous Rex Theatre in Slave Lake. It is a great movie that illustrates...