On a recent visit to a friend’s place I noticed that his axe handle had a 10 to 15 centimetre warp, and the head was loose and rusty.I’ve never seen a warped handle, but all the problems were a result of lack of care. Swinging...
Read MoreHe wakes up as one person and goes to bed as someone else completely; that’s what Bob Dylan said about himself in a long-ago interview.I’m Not There, released in 2007 and available on DVD at the Whitehorse Public Library, is a...
Read MoreRadiohead’s 1995 album The Bends clocks in at just over 45 minutes. I know that because my cassette tape that featured it would cut-off and flip over to “Crooked Rain Crooked Rain” by Pavement halfway through The...
Read MoreDr. Maya Angelou lived her life like she wrote her poems: fearlessly, with inner grace and free spirit.When she died on May 28, at the age of 86, humanity lost a poet, a novelist, an actress, a dancer, a singer, a mother, a...
Read MoreI took the baby robins nesting in on of our spruce trees in our Christmas Tree Farm. Mommy robin was high above me in a poplar tree chirping and watching very carefully. I was very respectful of the little darlings and shot the...
Read MoreThe last Au Naturel column looked at the sudden appearance of birds during spring migration. Today, when you walk along the Millennium Trail, look out for a white bird with pointed wings and a forked tail. It should be flying...
Read MoreI was shopping at my local free store the other day when I stopped in the middle of a wave to a fellow browser. He peered at me, and I at him, for a good minute before I said tentatively, “Dom?”His grin affirmed my suspicions...
Read MoreSummer camp offers a lot to young people that classrooms don’t — canoeing, crafts, campfires, and no homework. However, what sticks out the most for kids are the relationships formed with the people at camp. A five-day summer...
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