It’s another cold day (-27C when I got up this morning) here in Saskatchewan, but rumour has it tomorrow is actually going to be above freezing. May it be so. We watched the gold medal men’s hockey game this morning and cheered on our Canadian team. It was an exciting game even though our team…
I just sent this out to my subscribers on Substack. Posting it on here for the benefit of those who may be subscribed both there and here. I’m returning to my website, and making my blog, My Own Velvet Room, my primary online home. If you were previously subscribed to A Slice of Life on my…
Yesterday was a holiday—Family Day—and many people were off work. When we lived in a larger centre, I wouldn’t go to the shops for love nor money on a weekend or holiday, but it’s different living in our small city now. We went to the store to pick a couple of things (milk, yogurt, cottage…
I arrived home in the wee hours of Monday morning after another long and unpredictable travel day. At this point, I’m beyond done with traveling. My flight out of Kamloops on Sunday was delayed for eight hours, initially because of early morning fog preventing an incoming flight from landing, setting dominoes of flight mayhem into…
It’s been a week. I have nothing to say about anything, except that. This morning, I stood in the nave of our century old Anglican Church building, joining my voice with about a hundred and fifty other souls to say the Nicene Creed. People have been reciting the Nicene Creed for about 1,700 years. That…
Relatively speaking, it hasn’t been all that long since we started observing January 1 as the first day of the year. The ancient Romans initiated the tradition around the year 153 BC for political and military reasons, naming the first month after Janus, the god of doorways, gates, and thresholds. The first day of our…