When Santa Made House Calls

Christmas, among its many guises, is foremost a season of nostalgia.  No other holiday draws from the well of tradition quite like Christmas.  The gifts are more numerous, the lights are LED, the songs have been rearranged and the feast has truly become glutinous but all remain echoes of our own past and those of … Read more

The Dumbest Thing I Ever Bought

I am cheap.  I am.  I admit it freely.  I’d like nothing better than to say with the straight face of absolute conviction that I’m frugal, but I’m not.  I’m cheap.  I loathe spending money, be it the understandable indecision over the several hundred thousand dollar purchase price of a house or the less understandable … Read more

Canada Post vs The Terror Hawks

Does any group of public servant endure greater indignity than postal workers, in particular, mail delivery persons?  Members of the Armed Forces are regaled with respect by a mostly grateful populace some of whom even dress their vehicles in bumper stickers and magnetic ribbons to emphasize their support.  We may be envious of health worker … Read more