How do you spell guilty pleasure? Here in Canada I spell it P-O-U-T-I-N-E. Poutine is a side dish (or meal, depending how you look at it) that is comprised of fries, brown gravy and cheese curds. If you have never had it and are just trying to visualize it I can imagine you are thinking [...]
Tag: Humor
Blasting my music and “singing” with abandon…
Well, it is day two in Wakefield (a lovely small town in Quebec, Canada). Oprah and Gayle's Big Adventure continues. Oprah (Noah) has already portrayed a few traits that indicate that he is not the best travel companion. The first (and perhaps the most annoying) of the traits is his penchant for back-seat driving while [...]
Did I forget anything at home?
Whenever I travel I am always nervous that I will forget something important at home. I am not sure why I worry about it so much as I can't ever recall forgetting anything of substance at home. I surmise that my success in remembering things that I worry about forgetting is directly correlated to the [...]
#4
As I shared ever briefly earlier in the week, I have a volunteer for the husband #4 slot. My pal Scot Phelps encouraged me to share husband #4 information on my blog so my regular readers could chime in on whether he sounded like good husband material. #4, as I will refer to him here, [...]
Send bail…
Well, apparently I have been living in a cave the past couple of weeks. I realized I have been immersed in my work, but I did not realize how far out of touch with recent national news I was until my regular Wednesday radio conversation with Bruce Kelly. Bruce asked me this morning what my thoughts [...]
Get Juan on the phone!
When I went to Sunmart last week I about had a conniption fit in the coffee aisle when I saw the price of coffee - $12.99 for a container. And I am not talking an industrial-sized container or the pricey designer stuff with exotic names that you could sniff all day long. I am talking run-of-the-mill [...]
My summer plan…
As an educator my years have come to be measured from August to May. I have to say, this past year has been a very long and tiring one. Regular readers of my blog are aware of the ups and downs and ins and outs of that statement. Not that it has been one without [...]
THE NEW FORTY 