Facebook friends are getting younger ‘Cause it’s their childhood I remember That skinny kid on our school-bus Was teased but never made a fuss A square peg in a rounded hole Taunting could have bruised his soul But he grew up and l heard tell He’d married and they’d managed well   His profile pic shows wear and tear…

Yesterday I saw a flock of Canada geese, Flying over the ice-caked, snow-frosted lake, A few had stopped to investigate. They perched below On the wind-sculpted snow Commenting  ’bout their fate. The flock circled above in travel formation While the landed birds debated. “Should we wait for spring To do our thing? Though it’s kinda cold For a mating…?” Then…

Cheese I miss cheese Big round cheeses encased in wax stored under glass at the old Endako store Shiny plump cheeses posing sublimely on the counter near the cash register I’ll have half-a pound please. Half-a pound of the best cheese Along the railroad line. Trains used to stop at Endako. Trainmen would dash to…

The NaPoWriMo challenge is to write a poem a day- every day- during the coming month of April. How’s that gonna happen? I’ll need inspiration aspiration, fortification rejuvenation! But all I can drum up right now is INDIGNATION! It’s March and looking as if it might snow- AGAIN! April should bring warmth sunshine and showers. But…

Downton Abbey – season 4- episode 2 I’m trying to figure out why I was so offended by the rape scenario in the last session of Downton Abbey? In the one scene we listened to Anna’s desperate screams echoing over and over throughout the downstairs hallways, At the same time, the cameras upstairs kept zeroing…

WAS IT RACISM OR OPPORTUNISM? There are several theories regarding the murders and disappearances of the women and young girls who were hitchhiking along Highway 16 – now referred to as “The Highway of Tears.” The focus has been to warn everyone not to hitchhike. That initiative has been largely successful. But there are still…

    It’s extremely depressing to presume that our ultimate destiny as human beings is to always be involved in a war at one place or another on the planet. Like animals I guess we are territorial by nature and “the survival of the fittest” has been our basic rule for survival.  But now  we…

Dear Omenica Lakes Mental Health & Addictions Advisory Committee members, family, friends and everyone concerned about mental health issues.   Our Committee has rented the Beacon Theater in Burns Lake on Thursday October 10th from 1 – 2:30 pm to screen a very important film featuring people around the world with mental health issues. The…

  − Ever since my son was diagnosed back in 1986, I’ve been concerned about  the possible connection between pot smoking and schizophrenia. That perception has recently been backed up by scientific studies. Apparently one in five of us has a gene that renders us  unable to process  the chemicals in marijuana effectively. This can lead…