Earl Fowler It’s a familiar refrain in my cohort that things aren’t as good as they used to be. Perhaps you got the memo. And no wonder...

David Sherman Downsizing is a euphemism for, “The place is too big, the stairs are too long, I have too much shit and I don’t want to...

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night Earl Fowler One of the...

Earl Fowler Even if it’s not quite a GLAAD, GLAAD, GLAAD world we’re living in, I have a feeling, Toto, that we’re not in Kansas any...

David Sherman Maybe this will seem familiar. You went to high school and maybe university in the 60s and 70s. While the Americans were...

Earl Fowler Yes, and on our spring walk along the Galloping Goose bike trail, dilapidated railway tracks and Capital Regional District...

Earl Fowler Mike Bossy, 65, lung cancer. Guy Lafleur, 70, lung cancer. Both dead in a week. Both hockey superstars and wonderful men. You...

Earl Fowler Dear Rusty, you old Rhode Island Red cross-breeder, you: How’s it hanging? The old seed pecker, I mean. For a change, I just...

Earl Fowler Remember the good old days when the student movement was an ally of university and college faculty members who dared to...

We are all earthworms, digging our wrinkles. We live beneath the ground and if Christ should come in the form of a plow and dig a furrow...

Painting and text by John Pohl. This is a painting of my grandchildren from a photo I took of them in 2020 (four then; two more were born...

Bob Morrissey The knock on the door came as a surprise, given that it was eight o’clock in the morning and I was still in bed. Like a lot...

David Sherman & Earl Fowler Where the hell did you get a name like Ketanji? Aren’t you really a Muslim Jihadist? Wouldn’t you rather be...

David Sherman Hello fear of nuclear war, my old friend, good to fear you again. Those fond old days of air-raid drills and hiding under...

Earl Fowler Since muscling hundreds of independent bookstores out of existence in recent decades, box-store giant Chapters Indigo has...

Bob Morrissey This is about rice and eggs, two words that are simple to spell, almost impossible to mispronounce, and yet so fascinating...

Earl Fowler Interesting confluence. Jack Kerouac will turn 100 on Saturday, March 12. Ulysses, from which Kerouac borrowed his...

Bob Morrissey Another day, another senior moment, which I blame partly on Covid-19. This time it was early yesterday morning at my local...

Earl Fowler I wanted to buy some low THC CBD oil from the Victoria Compassion Club to help me sleep at night, so I signed up to receive...

David Sherman Boys just wanna have fun. That’s been the refrain, repeated endlessly these last few months when excusing the miserable...