Why did I stop writing my blog and what made me want to restart? In a word, Facebook. Facebook was where people of my generation were hanging out, so for the past eight years it’s where I’ve been, too. My Facebook friends and my various groups write interesting stuff for the most part, and I […]
Toronto to Carcassonne
March 30, 2022 Spring had been the official season for almost two weeks when I left Toronto on my journey to Carcassonne, France, via London, England. I had flown overnight from Toronto to London (can you fly from Toronto to London at any other time?) and then finished my journey to Carcassonne by train. I […]
Fathers… natural, step and grand
I last saw my father in 1950, when I was six. Over the last couple of years I have found out that he lived most of his life since then in southern Ontario and that I have six half-siblings, some of whom I have now had the pleasure of meeting. Also in 1950 my grandfather […]
My Scariest Road Trip
My scariest road trip was late in the afternoon of Easter Saturday in April, 1999. Roland Sewell and I had just been up to the Albanian border to bring relief to the flood of incoming Kosovar refugees. Roland remained there distributing bread, sausages and essentials, while I returned to Kukes in the truck, carrying a refugee […]
My Tuscan Holiday in 2012
On Thursday evening, 11 October 2012, Doe and I, together with our friends Doug and Marilyn, started our holiday in the beautiful town of Anghiari in Tuscany, Italy.
Thoughts While Preparing the Turkey
Christmas 1948 The first Christmas I remember was in 1948, when my mother and I were living in Toronto. Mother, who had been a Salvation Army officer in England before she met and married my father, was in charge of the Bedford Park Salvation Army Corps, just off Yonge Street on Glenforest Road in North […]