New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “COMPLIANCE, CONNECTIONS OR CARE-LESS?”
On Saturday, Ontario recorded 407 new COVID cases, the highest single-day number since early June 7th. More surprising was that 71% of these new...
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD” Part 2
In the Bible story of the Prodigal Son, a young man takes his inheritance and leaves home to find adventure in a distant land....
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD!”
In that delightful 1968 movie by the same name, Oliver Twist and his perpetually hungry workhouse friends sing rapturously about all those glorious meals...
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “WHY NAGASAKI?”
Just before noon on August 9, 1945, an American B29 warplane appeared high over the historic Japanese port city of Nagasaki. Its only mission?...
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “OUTSIDE THE BOX”
Writers try to avoid using clichés. These figures of speech generally become trite and stale with overuse. The phrase “thinking outside the box” easily...
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “GOOD TO SEE YOU—??”
Our esteemed premier is considering inaugurating Stage Three as the Province continues its systematic recovery from COVID-19. Most citizens will welcome greater social freedoms...
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “SYSTEMIC RACISM?”
I have delayed commenting publicly on the ongoing, loud and impassioned debate about race relations here and in the USA. My silence did not...
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “VERA LYNN: 1917-2020”
For a beleaguered British population, 1940 ushered in the darkest days of World War II. France had quickly surrendered to the relentless German blitzkrieg...
New Perspectives: Welcome to My Garden – ‘Wrensong’
Welcome to my Garden
by Jean MacGregor
The birch is old and showing its age as it continues to preside over the garden, overseeing its evolution...
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “American Dirt”
By fully extending her arm through the unguarded border wire, a desperate teenaged Honduran girl symbolically clutches a handful of soil from the US...
