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…

The Fourth Dimension As the years go by and I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to realise that there is indeed a fourth dimension and that it is the passing of time. It seems such a short while ago that racial segregation was rampant in the U.S and it was accepted by almost everyone. White was…

I am so glad I hung onto my cross-country skis when we moved into town! Last Sunday was a perfect ‘old fashioned Christmas card’ kind of day with sunlight sparkling off the snow blanketed trees and underbrush. The Village had plowed the trail that parallels the highway and I found myself scooting right along.  (Well…

The main thing society needs to do now in the wake of this terrible tragedy is concentrate on finding a cure for brain disorders such as schizophrenia. There is not nearly enough money allocated for research on schizophrenia, which has been described as “the most devastating of all diseases.” And we also need to find…