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• Turnaround
  The chickens are returning to the henhouse to roost. The cows are coming in from the pasture. The earthworms ... Naw, that doesn't fit. But the ...
• And then she said ...
  This is not a sad column. But for those of you who were left wondering after my last column about my mother, I regret to say she passed on last ...
• Long day's journey into night
  It is Dec. 29, 2002, and my father has just died. I look through the patio doors to where large birch, aspen, apple, plum and cherry bend in ...
• Doughnut holes
  It was a most scintillating conversation. Fourteen of us sitting around the dinner table. Eight were kids, which may explain the topic that had ...
• The Importance of the Trivial
  What did the Prime Minister do with the communion wafer? (And other news headlines that drastically affect the way we live and breathe and have ...
• Rescue squad
  This story is fiction. Harlequin fiction, perhaps, but still fiction. In the meantime, please be warned. This column has elements of sex in it. ...
• Animal revolt
  So now we have a pandemic on our hands. Which, I guess, is why we're told to wash our hands frequently. Unfortunately, the swine flu seems to be ...
• The beer facts
  "Gotta get me moose, b'y!" That's the rallying cry of the fall season among the hunting elite in Newfoundland and Labrador. "Gotta get me ...
• No age limit for some things
  She can be seen quite often on television. She and her Significant Other are sitting on a chesterfield. Neither seems to have much interest ...
• Voice of the divine
  "Jesus is talking to you!" The words were clear enough, even through the haze that encompassed my mind and kept me from opening my eyes. But ...
• The seal of disapproval
  I have been a great supporter of the Olympics. Other Half and I spend many hours watching them, summer and winter, every two years. Can't wait ...
• Breaking up is hard to do
  She just up and left me. Actually, it happened several days ago without any warning whatsoever. One moment she was there, the next she was gone - ...
• The sport in team sports
  Call them the Big Three. They're the big three in my books this time of year. And yes, I am aware that not everyone reads the same books as I. ...
• Two royal ladies
  Well, I said sadly to myself, there goes the old ballgame. There goes international detente. There goes understanding and co-operation between ...
• It's all an ill wind
  Without doubt the economy has gone all to hell. Everything from General Motors to General Foods to General Birdseed products is going belly up. ...
• A matter of taste
  I don't think I'll be buying a Honda anytime soon. That should have the Honda manufacturers of the world shivering and shaking. Some little ...
• And yet once more
  The Newfoundland sealing disaster, the Southern Cross, the Caribou, the Ocean Ranger, et al. Cougar Helicopters Flight 491. Back in the ...
• Death of a salesman
  I am not a cruel person. Really, I'm not. I don't enjoy tearing the wings off flies or bottling up moths in a mayonnaise jar until they pass on ...
• To whom it may concern
  So everyone's all upset about atheists. I don't know what all the fuss is about. It's as though no one knew atheists existed before. Suddenly, ...
• Weightlessness
  There must be 50 ways to lose your blubber. Not that I have all that much blubber to lose, mind you. But far as I'm concerned, five pounds is as ...
• Shoulder to shoulder
  Senator Michael Duffy. The senator's first speech is something to remember. Not exactly up there with John F. Kennedy's "Ask not what your ...
• Lost and gone like Clementine
  You've heard of the lost tribes of Israel. The lost boys, the lost generation, the lost cod. Lost worlds, lost causes, lost chapters of the ...
• If
  If you keep your head when she's complaining And usually complaining about you, If you can keep from flying off the handle, Instead of shouting ...
• God made us this way
  I am not the sharpest chisel in the toolbox. Never pretended to be. I have my limitations, I know what they are, and I perform accordingly. ...
• And furthermore, you idiot
  I don't often get nasty phone calls or e-mails. My readers are as polite as they are discerning. A more genteel group is difficult to imagine. I ...
• Called into service
  Poor Daughter Number Three! Daughter Number Three had a rather difficult Sunday morning last week. She was home for the Christmas holidays, of ...
• The arse is gone right out of er
  We are about to leave the relative security of 2008. And about to enter what will be a desolate end to this decade. The arse has indeed gone ...
• Its an interesting study.
  To understand the Christmas traditions in this far-off place we need to know a little about the country and the people. Older Slamanovia is by ...
• Kicking a dead arse
  Congratulations Canada! We have finally adopted the U.S. political system. We have, for all intents and purposes, changed from a three-party ...
• Fire and ice
  Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favour fire. Robert Frost's musings ...