May 13, 1976  Sense and Nonsense Power seems to be a word everyone is using these days. People seem to be searching for non-mechanical sources of energy. Some groups of people have formed organizations using the term “power.” We have had “black power” – also red, white and yellow power. We have also had “flower…

Jan, 1975  Sense and Nonsense  [Nechako Chroncle] January is not a good month. It is cold, snowy and generally miserable throughout. The biggest thing wrong with January, however, is that it is too long. February hasn’t that much going for it either but at least it is short, especially on non-leapyears. After you get past…

Mar 29, 1976  Sense and Nonsense We once had a friend who collected clocks for a hobby He had clocks of every description in his home. Most of his clocks were not your ordinary straight tick-tocking variety. They did extraordinary things every hour and some of them every half-hour. Birds would pop out and make…

Jan 16/75  Sense and Nonsense [Nechako Chronicle] Now that the holiday season is all over I have decided to compile a list of “nots” for next year. This list is composed from various irritating, miserable and downright awful experiences of Christmases past and recent past First of all do not place any Xmas baking in…

Mar 10, 1975 Sense and Nonsense [Nechako Chronicle] Charles Darwin had a theory that people are descended from apes. If this is true then a lot of apes may someday be people. It may take a few million years but in the process of evolution anything is possible. I understand that some apes in the…

August 5, 1976 [The Nechako Chronicle] The 1976 Summer Olympics have been a 100% success – especially for East Germany, U.S.S.K., United States and West Germany. The Big “4” have taken this lions’ share of the medals. Canada captured quite a few silver and bronze medals but lamentably no gold medals at all. I have…

Sept 9, 1976 Sense and Nonsense The young people of today seem to have completely shed the shackles of superstition. Their forefathers tread much more carefully and often with a good deal of trepidation. They never crossed a black cats’ path nor walked under a ladder. If they spilled salt at the breakfast table, they…

August12, 1976 Sense and Nonsense [Nechako Chronicle] The scene: a living room with various sized people watching TV.  Dad, Mom, Big brother, Bigger brother, Borrowed brother and Small sister are lazily lolling in the sunshine filtering through the living room windows. Enter: Aunt, Uncle, Small nephew and Very Small dog. Aunt: “Such a beautiful day!…

Jan 29, 1976 Sense and Nonsense (Nechako Chronicle) In the past few years there has emerged a brand new kind of pollution. Actually it has been around for a long time, but is becoming more prevalent. It is language pollution. A spade is no longer a spade but is more likely to be called a…

Sense and Nonsense [circa 1975] I have read that in the fish kingdom they do not have dental problems as we humans do. At least some of the larger fish do not. There are little fish swimming about which are appropriately named “Cleaner Fish.”All the big fish has to do is open his mouth and…