(Circa 1990) SENSE AND NONSENSE I work as a home support worker which means I do a lot of cooking and cleaning, something like what I hate to do most in my own home–housework. But in a client’s home it takes on new meaning and importance (Over and above the fact that I get paid).…

1990s – 2000 Sense and Nonsense “What we need around here is a mouse-eating cat,” my husband stated after inspecting the un-sprung trap that he had set out before going to bed the previous evening. Our resident mouse had once again slipped past the trap’s deadly prong, managing to slurp up every vestige of the…

Circa 1900 – 2000 Sense and Nonsense I just read about a device called an infrared spectrometer that will soon be used to analyze what’s going on inside the human body. We will no longer have to endure  boring, time-consuming (not to mention painful) surgeries for doctors to diagnose what’s not working properly. A mechanic…

Circa 1990-2000 Sense and Nonsense- published Tri-Town News I was down at the Coast during the “big blow” on Easter Sunday 1997. A big wind in the country is merely an interruption between the snow or rain and the ever-popular sunshine. The important thing to remember is to stay off the lakes in your rowboat…

1979 Sense and Nonsense Lately I have been into collecting news oddities. This week I would like to share some of the recent absurdities that have me firmly convinced that “People arc the strangest of chickens”. That quote I believe is from Daffy Duck – or was it Reginald Rooster? The death of Pegleg the…

Nov 6, 1980  Sense and Nonsense There is often a bit of humour in even the most serious statements uttered by seemingly earnest individuals. The English language is a natural vehicle for expressing ambiguous opinions and phraseologies. How about the silver-penned newsman who reported on the spectacular rescue of six American ambassadors from Iran last…

1976 Sense and Nonsense Weddings are fun. They are also a big hassle for almost everyone involved. I know one mother who sewed every stitch for the girls in her daughter’s wedding party. She was still sewing madly a few hours before the wedding was supposed to begin. When I commented that she was working…

1974-75 Sense and Nonsense At a recent female gabfest the conversation changed from “what’s the matter with kids today” to “weird things we did when we were children.” One woman related how she would sometimes make chocolate fudge in her mother’s absense, clean the kitchen thoroughly to destroy the evidence, and stuff the candy in…

Sense and Nonsense: The Endako Mine Strike- 1979 Once upon a time Mother Goose laid an egg On a hill, near a tiny hamlet which nestled Beside a beautiful lake. The egg was not golden, (In fact it was a dirty grey in colour) but the people Were happy because the egg was valuable, And…

08 04 1977  Sense and Nonsense Most family magazines seem to have at least one page devoted to I.Q. tests. These tests contain a list of questions for the reader to evaluate his knowledge of, or aptitude for, certain things. Each I.Q. test is related to a topic, whether it be marriage, nutrition, the energy…