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Honouring those worthy of respect

I have a problem. By the time faithful readers see this, the big news will be the results of the American election and the storm that is sure to...

13.11.2024 7

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Memories fade and icons are forgotten

You realize when you are old that most of the icons you thought would be around forever are gone. I remember buying one of Kris Kristofferson’s...

16.10.2024 10

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Party season is pretty much over at Long Point

The last long weekend of the season has come and gone and the summer residents are packing up. The last long weekend of the season has come and gone...

25.09.2024 8

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Glad to get over allergy to anything purple

I remember when the road from our farm near Port Stanley to my grandparent’s place, now owned by   my Uncle Stew, ran through Port Rowan and turned...

16.09.2024 10

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Frequent visits to doctors a big part of childhood

When I was a child, there were so many doctors in my life that my mother used to tell me that I should take up the study of medicine. Of course...

17.07.2024 10

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True gentlemen still exist

Gentleman seems a quaint word in a world where if you open a door for a ferociously independent woman you are apt to get a frosty nod. It’s just...

22.04.2024 10

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TV or not TV? That is the question

We just bought a 60-inch television which, in a cottage, is like going to an old-fashioned drive in. The main concern so far is what to watch? ...

27.03.2024 6

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Can't get over being a worry wart

They told me I had skin cancer on my nose. No worries they told me. “We will whip you into the clinic and we will freeze that sucker and...

21.02.2024 10

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From Walsingham to Chicago and beyond

I’m a Walsingham boy at heart, but I’ve been to Chicago too. Not lately of course but back when it was sharp edged and bleak. “Hog butcher to...

18.01.2024 10

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Small towns have a life of their own

Small towns have a way of surviving and will as long as family connections to them stay intact. Living on Long Point during the winter the sight...

27.12.2023 5

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