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"Left Behind Economics" Paul Krugman, NY Times
Well, I'm off to Toronto and Montreal for a little vacation/family time. So I'll just borrow a July 14th NY Times "Op-Ed" article - that rings so true. Hope you all are enjoying the summer. I certainly am - although I'm still struggling with this mouthful of new teeth ('teef') ... when I ask Sandra for a spoon - it comes out "fpoon". Dammit ( Read more... ) -
Chance encounters with one's youth ...
Suez 1956 ( Read more... ) -
America celebrates - Canada Day and Independence Day
July 1st, 2006 - Happy Canada Day ( Read more... ) -
We have border-problems too ...
News From the "Other" Border ( Read more... ) -
Thou shalt not dismember thy neighbor ... even in Toronto
Well, hurricanes are back … and I hope my friends in Florida will be safe in the coming days and months. But what’s this about naming the hurricanes after Canadian provinces ( Read more... ) -
Something to laugh about - and someone to mourn
The Catholic girls
Sisters Mary Catherine, Maria Theresa, Katherine Marie, Rose Frances, & Mary Kathleen left the Convent on a trip to St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City and were sight-seeing on a Tuesday last July. It was hot and humid in town and their traditional garb was making them so uncomfortable. They decided to stop in at Patty ( Read more... ) -
April 6th - MY day ... my 25202nd day!
Goddamn! I just racked up another year! Most people my age just hum and hope nobody notices - but not me. I like my age although it surprises me and it's hard to believe I'm 69. (No smartass comments about the digits, s'il vous plait ( Read more... ) -
Word Games again - and 1-2-3-4-5-6 (from Aaron)
Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words: - >>
The winners are:
1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up ( Read more... ) -
Springtime, at last ...
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The spring has arrived again in Vancouver. And maybe my winter lethargy will melt away too. I've been meaning to write for the past couple of weeks, and if I don't put something in here tonight, it will be the first time I've 'missed a month' in the five years (maybe six) that I've been writing in LJ.
But I always dislike winters these days - ( Read more... ) -
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Freezing my ass off in Toronto - en route home after attending a friend's funeral in Montreal ( Read more... )