Sense and Nonsense 1981 I usually remember Christmases past by the small disasters that invariably occur at that time of year, Many of these min-disasters involve food. For instance, Christmas 1975 is emblazoned in my memory as the year my Christmas baking ended up at the garbage dump. (Just because it was encased in…

1974-12-19 Sense and Nonsense Last Sunday morning a friend confided to us that he is secretly an extra-terrestrial being. This was rather startling news to us and we were inclined to be sceptical of his statement. He did look a little pale and shaky, but otherwise resembled a reasonably normal, badly in need of some…

1975 07 03   Sense and Nonsense Today is the last day of school before the summer holidays. The little kids will soon come home loaded down with bags of workbooks, drawing paper, leaky pens, chewed pencils and crayons and tiny pieces of erasers. In amongst this stuff, encased in a beautiful folder, rests the Report…

Oct.2, 1980  Sense and Nonsense Barbara Eden was a recent guest on Alan Hamel’s afternoon television show. I remember her as the little blonde who used to appear magically from out of an ancient bottle on the “I Dream Of Jeanie” T.V. series. Barbara was describing a nerve-wrecking real-life situation she had experienced. A burglar…

Jan 1981  Sense and Nonsense A brand new year stretches before us. Many of us are gazing at our calendars with a touch of trepidation. What lies in store for Canadians in the year 1981? It is time for a certain dull, everyday housewife to crawl into her broom closet and undergo a mind-dazzling metamorphous!…

1980-02-21 Sense and Nonsense There is an oid saying, “You don’t own a cat – it owns you.” I am sure that is true and it is also true that our feline friends vary as much in character and personality traits as most other animals do. A few years ago an itinerant tom adopted us…

November 22/79  Sense and Nonsense A year ago I took our four-year-old to the arena for her first figure skating lesson. She was already supremely confident about her skating abilities. After all, she had practiced for hours in slippered feet on the living room rug! She trudged proudly along the rubber mat wearing her new…

May 3, 1979 Sense and Nonsense Art Linkletter once wrote a book entitled “‘Kids Say The Darndest Things”. I am sure most parents and other observers of small children will agree with the title – kids do say the darndest things! The other day our four-year-old daughter asked me to help catch flies for her…

May 31st/79 Sense and Nonsense The 1979 federal election is finally over. The battles have all been fought, the dust has settled and soon a new Prime Minister will be crowned in Ottawa. Walt Kelly, who drew the comic strip “POGO” in the nineteen fifties and sixties, was quite a satirist. The creatures he created…

OCTOBER 25, 1979. Sense and Nonsense The panty-hose has to be one of the greatest inventions in recent history. It replaced the stocking, (both of them) and all the contrivances formerly used to hold them in place. Many of us remember the garter belt (shudder!) Their lumpy fasteners ruined our comfort and our silhouettes. They…