Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all of you from Cathy and I – to the friends we see often, the friends we haven’t seen in a while, and the friends we haven’t met yet. May you all experience the peace and love that we’ve been blessed with....
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The drive home: commuting from Whitehorse to Carcross
I suppose commuting is one of those things that the average person in North America just has to tolerate in order to make a decent living. For a while yet, driving beween Carcross and Whitehorse is part of my life for that reason – Whitehorse is where an important...
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No comments – why blog?
Some of you who don’t blog may wonder why bloggers keep posting when few people respond with Comments. Some bloggers are just keeping an online journal for themselves, so it doesn’t matter at all, but in my case, the reason is that I have stats and a visitor map...
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The Hazards of Party Politics
In a perfect world, an election would put into power the people that most of the residents think will do a good job. But this isn’t a perfect world – there are a lot of trade-offs to consider when you head for the ballot box. A common example of...
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Okay, I Give Up!
This “summer” was so crappy that I’ve really been trying to hang onto the concept in case we got a warm spell. This morning it became obvious that I need to accept the fact that Father Winter is knockin’ on the door. Looking down the hill from Granger this morning,...
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Fallen Soldiers – We Do Care
I tend to ignore events Outside because I can’t deal with the atrocities that are happening in my country and around the world. Today in eastern Canada, insensitivity is added to atrocity. At 6:20 this morning, the bodies of 4 soldiers klilled in Afghanistan on Saturday arrived at CFB...
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