Every 6 years I find myself amused when Bonnie comes up on the list of hurricane names. This year I particularly enjoyed the tweets that sounds more like they are about a person than a storm: 11 PM: #Bonnie continues to meander in the SC Low Country; will bring off and on rain the next few days.…
Read MoreThe Rainbow Comes and Goes
I’ve been on a bit of a non-fiction run with my reading lately. One of the hi-lights has been this autobiography, “The Rainbow Comes and Goes”, by Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper. I remember watching Anderson Cooper on “The Mole” (I was a bit of a reality show junkie for a while) and…
Read MoreLessons from Week Two of Obedience School
If your dog wakes up acting like an a*****e, he will likely spend the rest of the day as such. Letting him sleep for eight hours straight will only aggravate the situation when you want him to act like he’s heard the word “heel”. Or “sit”. Or even his name. He will then cap the performance…
Read MoreDo You Think I’m In Trouble?
Brown nose, plant in my mouth, laying in a garden: that face says it all.
Read MoreCatching Up With Ketchup
If you were in Canada last winter, you no doubt heard that French’s ketchup is now being made with tomatoes grown in Canada and made into paste at the former Heinz plant in Leamington, Ontario that was closed 2 years ago. Leamington has always been associated with its tomatoes and the ketchup plant. The…
Read MoreThursday Night
Thursday night almost 200 people turned out for a community policing meeting on the island. The focus was on drug use. I don’t think our community is unique in this being an issue, but our isolation and size allows a focus that may not be as clear in a larger area. Drug addiction is…
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