THE THIRD PERIOD

Southern California is by far our most frequent vacation spot. The combination of beautiful weather, great sights and lots to do....

We are going on a vacation! It seems so long ago that Teresa and I travelled to Japan. Some of you may have read my blog posts about our...

Our son Sean is a Ph.D. student at York University. As part of completing his Masters, he is working to get articles published. Here is...

I recently turned 64 and got my first tattoo. I am feeling very cool. I feel like I can now refer to other people as "dude" (I am not...

I thought I would wait to post this as there seemed to be a flurry of articles, comments, posts and rants about Canada Day at the...

April 24, 2021, was the 106th anniversary of the massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire. On this same day, President Joe Biden...

I had never experienced what I think of as road rage. I must say that I am completely dismayed, disturbed and in extreme cases shocked...

One of the things I have found increasingly frustrating is that governments and their leaders seem to be held even less accountable...

I want to start by saying that none of our five children are sleeping in our basement or anywhere in our home. Teresa and I are now...

I decided that I would start a new post for my 2021 books. This should allow for easier navigation. I am also going to start this year by...

This is the time of year when so many best-of lists are produced. Best movies, books, television shows. Best classic rock songs (although...

This is my last post (finally!) on our trip to Japan. This final leg of our journey included a week in Kyoto, a night in Tokyo and a...

The answer is no, but ... For those of you that follow my blog you know I love reading. I read about 8 to 10 books per month. Well,...

This is my third blog post on our trip to Japan in February 2020. In the first post, Our Journey to Japan, I tried to give an overall view of our trip and short stopover in Seoul. In my second post, Our Journey to Sapporo and Otaru, I described in more detail our travel to the island of Hokkaido and the amazing time we had in and around Sapporo and Otaru. In this post, I will go into more detail on our stay in Osaka. We chose Osaka as the second leg of our journey for a coupl

I hope everyone reading this agrees that climate change is a significant, human-caused problem that requires dramatic action, or else the...

As I mentioned in my post, Our Journey to Japan 2020, we ended up planning our trip to Japan in February because Teresa was planning to...

Well, the golf season is coming to an end in Canada, although Patrick is off work next week and we are hoping for some nice October...

I thought I would create a separate post with just the books of the month I pick. One fiction and one non-fiction list. This way if you...

The first time I remember stress being transferred to me from watching television was during 9/11. I am not talking about the kind of...

Our trip seems so long ago now. Obviously pre-COVID-19, or at least pre-COVID-19 lockdown and travel restrictions. Our trip to Japan,...