Bug? Beat? Who knows? I was fine at 11 pm but by 1:30 am it had me. The "YE SHALL NOT SLEEP" throbbing sinus thingamabob. Ginger beer seems to help. The spicy sort. I have to remember in these troubled times that, like Gordon Lightfoot, I am still alive.  •  How far can Canada go after being held …

We are generally clever, we humans. We figure things out by what we see about us. But there are two problems - what we haven't seen yet and what that we make decisions without considering what we haven't seen yet. Consider this:  •  ...in recent months at a clinic in Liège, Belgium, the patient …

Six days of above freezing on the radar all of a sudden. This sorta thing always makes me believe it will be a soft winter but, then, WHAMMO, it will be -87 ten days from now. The Olympics may well be pooched if this sort of thing keeps up out west. What if the snow doesn't show? What if it rains …

No baseball and no elections. It is that time of the year when you have to make do and you have to make do with a toque on your head. I don't know if I am ready. It got so long for summer to get going. Now we wait for our winter of discontent. I have to put away the garden hose and bring out the …

So we got the needle. We qualify for the early line up and the system worked pretty well though we did hit a rather sweet lull in the wait times. "Will we feel the pinch for long?" we ask. Pause. "You'll feel it, alright." I have a super noogie while others can't lift the arm over their head … read more »

I thought we covered "salt as wicked" when I was a kid. So wicked in fact I thought I should spell it whicked to get the full force of a "wh" opening.  •  There is merit in getting a couple of decades on. In the 70s and 80s we all learned though persistent media and news campaigns that salt … read more »

It's starting. That sleepy time in summer when nothing seems to really be happening. The recession is chugging along and society has yet to collapse. It's ten weeks to October's chills but no one is stocking up on sweaters or beef broth yet. There was a perfect game - just the 18th ever. I watched …

It's no secret that I am big. Long before there was a beer blog or even beer there were the husky jeans. Husky was a brand of gasoline in a distant part of the land, a form of high fiber bread in the local Nova Scotian market, a type of dog and my style of jeans. Despite being clearly hyperactive …

Simply unbelievable:  •  Kim Barker, public health adviser for the Assembly of First Nations, told the Senate committee on aboriginal peoples she was “devastated” when she first heard that health officials were spending precious time debating the wisdom of sending hand sanitizer – which can … read more »