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Good Things Grow In Ontario
I was cleaning up my hard drive and found these photos I took at Parkdale Market when I was visiting my mother in Ottawa late last summer.
The Lobotomist
Last Monday I felt fine. Had a few doctors appointments during the day and later that night settled in with my local PBS station. They aired a program titled The Lobotomist. The program was an account of neurologist Walter Freeman who devised a procedure which...
The Ghost of Tom
In my life I’ve loved three men. The last man fathered my two children. The second man broke my heart. I woke up this morning thinking of the first man I ever loved. I met Tom when I joined the youth group at our parish church. He was seventeen and I was twelve. To...
It’s All In My Head
For quite awhile now I’ve been experiencing some debilitating fatigue and other strange feelings. I trip, loose my balance, have trouble swallowing, see flashes of light, and have painful-numb-tingle-like sensations in my extremities. Until late this summer, I boiled...
Judgment At Nuremberg
This morning I caught the last 45 minutes or so of the courtroom drama Judgment at Nuremberg. At the Teach With Movies website it gives the following description of the film: This movie is a fictionalized account of the war crimes trial of judges and prosecutors who...
Bass Pro
I have a blog buddy who lives in the great state of Kansas and is an avid angler. Every time he goes on a road trip he finds some excuse to visit a Bass Pro shop. He always speaks of his visits with such glee I figured that Bass Pro must be some kind of Disneyland for...