by bZar | Apr 5, 2006 | Life and Reflections
This was my first car. It was a 1969 Chevelle and cost $25. I was dating a mechanic, Pat, at the time and for my 18th birthday he bought it for me off a farmer in Lunenberg, Ontario. It had been sitting in the farmer’s barn for years with a seized engine, missing...
by bZar | Apr 4, 2006 | Life and Reflections
The other day while in the car, I was listening to a performance of First Nations drumming on the CBC. Caught up in their cadence and the sound of their chants I began to recall the first time I had attended a Pow Wow… When I knew him, Bill was a tall, thin man in his...
by bZar | Mar 3, 2006 | Home and Family
The first house I bought had an ugly back garden. The previous owner used to park his truck on the pad where the old garage used to be. The area around the concrete pad was waist-high in weeds. This is what it looked like after we had cleared the weeds. Pretty ugly...
by bZar | Feb 27, 2006 | Politics
The mornings my boss is in town on the way to the office, he picks up a coffee for me and we shoot the shit for a few minutes before he starts his day. One day last week he came in and told me about a web site his friend told him about. The site examines the official...
by bZar | Feb 26, 2006 | Life and Reflections
I am a child of the space race; the progeny of unprecedented technological and scientific discovery. Mine was the generation who gazed at the nightime sky in hopes of spotting orbiting space capsules; who looked to science to explain life’s mysteries. I remember...
