There’s a challenge on social media to post the last picture on your camera roll before you entered quarantine. I thought I’d take that challenge but go a step further to post a few photos and significant dates from my own personal COVID timeline… My Personal COVID Timeline Late November – early December 2019 COVID […]
This is from Medicine Hat, Alberta, not Indian Head, Saskatchewan. But it’s absolutely insane that a litre of gas now costs *less* than when I started working at a gas station in 1989 when gas was 45.9 cents per litre (49.9 for Supreme!) – a number imprinted on my brain the same way I still […]
I would never have guessed that Joe Diffie would be the first celebrity COVID death (well, if a tier B 1990’s country singer counts as a celebrity but I liked quite a few of his songs back in the day so why not?) And if this helps even one Red Stater stay home, his death […]
It’s amazing how the hospital can be both the location for some of the happiest moments of people’s lives (births of children, news about diseases being beaten and bones being healed) and some of the worst (a loved one doesn’t make it after an accident, grandma’s last breaths on the palliative care ward, the diagnosis […]
I’m suddenly very interested in end-of-the-world songs for some reason… “Ice Age” – Hawksley Workman
Pace was into personal protective gear long before the current COVID-19 outbreak. (Of course, this was how he suited up to load dirty dishes into the dishwasher at our old house so a lot lower health risk I would hope!)
We just returned from a week at the Crown Paradise Club Cancun so I wanted to write a review of our resort while the memories are still fresh. HOW WE ENDED UP CHOOSING THE CROWN PARADISE CANCUN IN THE FIRST PLACE Having bought a house in the late fall, our streak of visiting an all-inclusive […]
This was my view one week ago today. I admit that I was a bit nervous heading to the airport the next day as the Coronavirus seemed to blow up big (in news coverage if not actual cases) during out week in Mexico but our flight went ahead so, (un)fortunately, we weren’t stranded in Cancun! […]
I still tell the story of the woman I traveled to England with for a University exchange in 1995 meeting a group of people in a pub and saying she hadn’t changed her pants in days. Turns out trousers are pants in England and pants are underwear! 🙂
TeleMiracle is one of the most successful fundraisers per capita in the world and the latest edition is coming up this weekend. Through the entire Telethon, they have a constant crawl of donors but it’s very rare to see your name on it since the volume of donors is so high. But a few years […]
