IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOUNTAIN In nineteen hundred and sixty-five The town of Fraser Lake was like a bee-hive People moving in from far away In the shadow of the mountain They had come to stay Brand new houses and a shopping mall Streets, a water system, recreation hall One year later Fraser Lake…

I sometimes wonder if I’m all there…We had stopped in McBride on the way home from Alberta, to spend the afternoon and evening resting at a motel. During the trip, we’d stopped at several motels and I’d become fairly organized – or so I thought. This time we brought in a small suitcase stocked with pills, nightime necessities, clean underwear and socks. We were leaving at the crack of…

That Christie Clark is one smart woman! In the short time that  she’s been premier, she’s made the HST seem palatible and less  of a dirty trick played on an unsuspecting public after the last provincial election. She’s gonna reduce the tax from 12 percent to 10 percent – sometime within the next 2 years. If she wasn’t a politician she’d have made a…

The Lusty Month of May ‘Twas in the lusty month of May When green buds they were swelling We sowed some seeds in a garden box Outside of where we’re dwelling We planted turnips, onions, peas, Some carrots, cabbage, greenery, And flowers with their colours bold To brighten up the scenery Imagine our surprise when…

I’d like to quote an old Readers Digest one-liner:  A fellow was in the market for some socks and had inquired what the label “shrink-resistant” meant. “It means the socks will shrink – but they don’t want to,” the clerk explained. In my mind that’s the difference between atrocities committed by psychopaths such as Osama bin Laden and his ilk; and atrocities committed by governments…

‎I’m puzzled how men such as Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden (Charles Manson too..) have an inate ability to impress others – sometimes many, many others – supposedly sane people – to fall in with and support their perverted grandiose aspirations… ? So now they’ve finaly found and killed “the most wanted man on earth…” At…

People are finally recognizing that the aims and  aspirations of science, and the aims and aspirations of most organized religions (after  peeling off superficial and cultural trappings and baring the basic “pearls of wisdom”) are similar. The difference (in my view) is that science points out what needs to be fixed and religion assures us that, if we all pull…

It’s funny how members of the general public can be taken in by the oddest notions?  I am an typical  Canadian and as such, think of myself as something of a barometer, measuring the changing temperature and attitudes of the Canadian public. I remember commenting that the newly-crowned leader of the Liberal Party of Canada should  have stayed in the…

I had no idea that other people – in other countries- are also put off by the blatant promoting (and trashing) of individual party leaders during democratic elections. There needs to be a change -worldwide, I guess. It is too easy for the powers-that-be to manipulate citizens into voting – or not voting – for a particular party. If…

Do we have a real democracy when we only have the tirades and comments from the figureheads who represent each of the political parties to chose from. And this time around none have that “movie star” quality about them. And why should that be necessary for the job, anyway? Corporate leaders in the private sector are often pretty dull fellows… I would much…