This past week has been busy with Christmas parties as well as the final push by our contractor to complete the kitchen renovations. December is racing along and I have been too busy to enjoy the simple pleasures of the season. Today we took time on a lovely sunny afternoon to visit the annual Christkindl [...]
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Boar’s Head and other Delights
Posted in Christmas, history, Music, people and places on December 7, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Imagine…
Posted in history, Poetry, special days on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
National War Memorial, Ottawa Canada I have met many Canadian war veterans in my work as they are an aging group of people, their numbers thinning as we move a half century and more past the big wars we memorialize today. Many of them suffered physical and emotional ailments related to the war and even [...]
Imagine…
Posted in history, Poetry, special days on November 11, 2009 | 10 Comments »
National War Memorial, Ottawa Canada I have met many Canadian war veterans in my work as they are an aging group of people, their numbers thinning as we move a half century and more past the big wars we memorialize today. Many of them suffered physical and emotional ailments related to the war and even [...]
Three Sisters and the Iroquois Village
Posted in food and drink, history, people and places on September 10, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Inside the longhouse On the long weekend, I decided to hike around some areas of the Niagara Escarpment which are within a forty minute drive from home. Halton Region has many lovely parks and trails, including sections of the Bruce Trail, which runs for 800 km from Niagara to Tobermory, Ontario. Crawford Lake is a [...]
Remember Whensday: School Days
Posted in family, history, people and places, Remember Whensday on September 2, 2009 | 14 Comments »
In my school uniform beside my brother This week was back to school for some children in Ontario and it is the first time I remember school starting before Labour Day. Because Labour Day is late this month and there are a required number of school days each year, some school boards decided to open [...]
Thoughts on the Life and Death of Celebrities
Posted in history, Music, people and places on June 26, 2009 | 13 Comments »
The news event of the week will undoubtedly be the untimely death of Michael Jackson. I never listened to his music (other than in the movie Free Willy), never practiced his famous dance steps, and never took a picture of his wax likeness at Madame Tussaude’s in New York City last year. But he was [...]
International Women’s Day: Women are Persons!
Posted in history, special days on March 8, 2009 | 16 Comments »
While in Ottawa, we visited the monument on Parliament Hill entitled “Women Are Persons!” It is a tribute to five Canadian women, Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Emily Murphy, Louise McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards, who won the “Person’s Case” in 1929. The Supreme Court of Canada had ruled in 1928 that a woman is not [...]
Obama Cookies, Cutting the Fat and More…
Posted in history, special days, spirituality on February 24, 2009 | 18 Comments »
My Obama Cookie My husband was in Ottawa this past weekend after the visit of President Obama. He had some time to go to the ByWard Market and found “Obama Cookies” for sale at the bakery stand where the president had purchased the red maple leaf treats. They were selling well as people lined up [...]
A Mari usque ad Mare
Posted in history, spirituality on February 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
A Mari usque ad Mare (“From Sea to Sea”) is Canada’s motto. It was derived from Psalm 72:8, which reads in Latin “Et dominabitur a mari usque ad mare, et a flumine usque ad terminos terrae,” and in the King James version, “He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river [...]
President Obama Visits Ottawa
Posted in history, people and places on February 20, 2009 | 23 Comments »
President Obama in Ottawa today (Photos from Macleans.ca) As we were getting ready to leave Ottawa on Monday, preparations were well underway for President Barak Obama’s visit to Canada. Barricades were being erected around Parliament Hill and dozens of Canadian flags lined the walkways. This was a working visit rather than a state visit and [...]
