Just thought this pretty tactless flyer that plopped into my mailbox today warranted a comment. Touting Black Friday, …which is going to be different this year with the CDC recommending us to refrain from large gatherings… it was a simple mailer bursting with discounts… Before the Friday after Thanksgiving became the traditional day when red…

For me, the epitome of an English garden is one that looks tangly and wild… those lovely little cottage gardens, over-run with wisteria and clambering roses, bursting with colour and alive with bees busying themselves among the blooms. My mother’s was manicured, no unchecked vines or trailing geraniums allowed. Her lawn neatly dotted with coloured…

Our beautiful grand-daughter, Sophie, celebrated her first birthday recently and we had her party in Farmersville at the city park, In true McNeny-style… Picnics R Us! A mess of chips and dip, drinks, bubbly and cake, of course. All the relatives who were in town came and there were lots of presents! In addition to…

To get away from the pandemic…or at least how it’s playing out in our neck of the woods, Hubs and I packed two small cases and headed to Colorado. We were going to drive, we didn’t have to get there in a hurry but 2 hrs compared to 12 hours won the day and we…

As the days turned into weeks, and the weeks months, and the months look as though they’re going to make the year with businesses saying they’re not going to bring employees back into the office until 2021, and theatres announcing their live performances won’t start until June 2021, Hubs and I at Footlights are sinking…

One of my students is seven. We use manipulatives for math…I’m not very good with them but she is a whiz and happily takes on the role of teacher when I flounder. She has her own names for the shapes we were cutting out of Playdoh, “This is an Eight-let,” she said holding up an…

Living in the country we definitely get more power outages than in the city. Hubs has always been affronted when the house goes dark while we’re still up, he jumps on the phone and harasses the electric company while I rummage around in drawers for candles and matches vowing that next time I’ll be better…

As a Christian when I practise yoga I use it as a moving meditation. It settles my mind and strengthens my body while keeping me reflective and flexible. It’s a time to pray while learning how to breathe in a contemplative way. It’s a time to work hard and sweat, without leaving my mat, or…

At the end of July it had begun to get hotter and my flowers were beginning to wilt expecting me to water them a couple of times a week. Tomatoes and squash were still giving in their abundance but those too were beginning to slow down. July was melting into August and our very pleasant…

Luke’s gospel is being read at church and recently we’ve listened to the parables of the lost coin, the lost sheep (Luke 15: 1-10) and the lost son, better known as The Prodigal (Luke 15: 11-32). All of them rejoice over the finding and returning of these lost. I’m moping over losses at the moment (too…