Humour

… could thee bring back some of those roasted chestnuts thy people make and some popcorn. That would be nice. We planted a box last spring, but it didn’t come up; just some things that look like rows and rows of yellow teeth.

One of the early heroes was Alexander the Great. Alex was apparently overly fond of one of his generals, Hephaestion, but was he really?

I did the only sensible thing I could do, I finished reading the book and went looking through the used book stores for the first book of the trilogy…

I can envision every Bond girl and often do until Mary shakes me awake asking if I am okay and why I am moaning.

John Smith is a great example; there must be hundreds of them in Ontario alone, maybe more, and thousands in Canada.

…that had to be the day the city sent their giant mobile vacuum cleaner down your street, which they never bothered to do before your tree became a money machine.

Gloria seemed distraught and Lance took her over to the sofa. They talked quietly for a moment, and she calmed down and began to speak.

If your partner is enjoying the dream, can you, or even should you, try to get in on it?

In 1950 the Fosters moved to Orillia with hope of bringing some semblance of civilization and culture to that backward little town on the shores of Lake Couchiching.

I hate to blame someone else for my failings but sometimes it isn’t my fault.