The snow fell softly on the rooftops of the small town. No one really paid much attention, as they were busy with holiday preparations, such as procrastination, delaying, and postponing. Others were actively putting things off to the last minute. Oh sure, there were a few that had everything complete, right down to the last…
(With apologies to Edgar Allen Poe and Dr. Seuss) The ponders I pondered On that midnight so dreary Did leave me at once Both weak and most weary . | sat there all lonely, I sat then heard rapping That sounded almost like Some visitor tapping. “What visitor is this rapping upon my door?” I…
The meme circulated the internet like a picture with a witty caption. It arrived fully formed into the inboxes and Twitter streams of the world. No one had seen anything like it since the day before, and it wasn’t forgotten until late in the afternoon when someone else rewrote the caption and put it on…
It was perfectly clear that the photo lacked any detail whatsoever, and had definitely captured something or other. The vast majority of the four people who first examined it believed that it was a real photograph, based upon the fact that it was. The local fire chief, one Ernest McBurny (no relation to the Kennedy…
After much deliberation, I’ve decided to start this story with the first line. The choice was relatively easy, as I haven’t yet written the last line, and it will most likely be on another page altogether. I ask you, dear reader, to kindly disregard anything you haven’t yet read, and instead focus on the story…
40 000 – 10 000 B.C. Early descendants of Canada’s Indigenous people cross the Bering land bridge from east Asia into North America. Lucky for them Homeland Security hadn’t been invented, or they’d still be waiting in line. 900 – 1 000 A.D. Early Viking explorers are believed to be the first Europeans to visit…
Dunnville, oh Dunnville, Land of bounteous splendor! Wooded tracts of Carolinian trees Shade our century homes. River so Grand, home to finned fishes And turtles that snap. Your Dunnville Fall Fair With it’s sheep and it’s cows In all their bovine glory. To your Festival of Mudcats I raise my toast high. Flyers and Knowles…
Apples with your flesh so firm, Asparagus that’s grown full term. Beans of green and yellow bright, Beets when pickled bring such delight! Brussels Sprouts to boil hot, Broad Beans also in a pot. Broccoli, you are the best! Cabbage to roll at my behest! Carrots, orange and full of power, I like you cooked…
