Zap-a-cat & read the writing on Facebook’s wall

Vigilantes purportedly writing from Camrose, Alberta named 4 under-aged children who allegedly broke into a home there recently and nuked a family pet over the holidays. These self-appointed sherriffs did their name-calling and justice-seeking on Facebook’s hallowed walls, not pausing to wait for proof, or the wheels of Canadian justice to grind however slowly or legally that [...]

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What’s worse? Kids nuking cat? vigilante facebookers? or a crying Pres. candidate?

So Hilary boo-hoo’s a bit and everyone seems to be in a flap – what’s that about? She’s cold – she’s unfeeling; she cries – she’s weak; she stands by her man, she’s a push-over; had she left him? no doubt about it, an unforgiving bitch…
Ah the life of the American politician. How you folks [...]

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Do dyslexic insomniacs lay awake at night and wonder if there is a dog?

Alright, alright – it’s an old joke but it still knocks me out. Colour me easily amused at this hour when sleep eludes me; the wee hours when I start pondering the meaning of it all, re-reading Anne Sexton and Victor Frankl and skimming some Jung, Sartre and Camus for good or bad measure (no [...]

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“Do you know why I stopped you ma ám?”

The whoop of the siren, check the rear- view and what a surprise! For whom the lights flash? They flash for you! A cop younger than some of the shoes I own pulls me over and so help me hannah but my insurance’s expired, as is my ownership and my plates…how did that happen? For a [...]

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Greetings from the lip of the Arctic Circle

       Okay, so maybe Edmonton, Alberta’s not quite that far north – tell my chattering teeth; the deck thermometer is registering very much sub-zero temps. and there’s a wind-chill! Lot of Christmassy snow still hanging around – very pretty but makes Spring seem a long way off. Throw another log on the fire and curl up [...]

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