‘William Thomas’ Archives
I Dream Of Things That Never Were And I Say: “Holy Crap!”
I have a question for you. But first … I arrive home last week in the early evening and it’s summer which is weird right there. And I find a note on my door from my so-called “new neighbour” who hasn’t even bought the cottage next door yet and she’s complaining about walking into cobwebs on my beach steps. So I find myself down on [...]
Valentine’s Day – Signs Your Relationship Might Be In Trouble
Valentine’s Day - Signs Your Relationship Might Be In Trouble Human nature made sure that the saccharine celebration of Valentine’s Day with its sappy cards and corny poems would spawn a commercial counter culture. Anti-Valentine business is thriving like never before. Boutique jewelry stores will sell you a variety of barrettes, tie [...]
Worst 28 Days Of The Year
Worst 28 Days Of The Year Thirty days has September, February, just twenty-eight, All the rest we like to remember, It’s Freakin’ February we hate. You’re overweight, depressed and drowning in debt. The excesses of Christmas and New Year’s have inflated your waistline and depleted your wallet. It’s either bitterly cold [...]
North Americans Not Good At Geography
North Americans Not Good At Geography Apparently an awful lot of Canadians are geographically illiterate. Recently the Royal Canadian Geographic Society conducted a survey among adult Canadians in which sixty percent could not locate the country of Egypt on a world map. Fifty percent could not locate the island nation of Taiwan. [...]
Dog people versus cat people. Where do you stand?
Dog people versus cat people. Where do you stand? Tails went stiff and ears went straight back as the Associated Press announced the results of their recent dogs versus cats popularity contest. Approaching a two-to-one margin, 74% of Americans surveyed claimed to like dogs a lot while only 41% stated they liked cats a lot. That’s when the [...]
February – Worst 28 Days Of The Year
Thirty days has September, February, just twenty-eight, All the rest we like to remember, It’s Freakin’ February we hate. You’re overweight, depressed and drowning in debt. The excesses of Christmas and New Year’s have inflated your waistline and depleted your wallet. It’s either bitterly cold or wet and slushy and the sun [...]
Pro athletes with words you could laugh by
Pro athletes with words you could laugh by I used to be a fan of sports. I used to follow the Toronto Maple Leafs until they had so many horrible seasons I found myself celebrating their one-goal losses. Describing how it feels to lose, baseball star George Brett said it best. “If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your [...]
Travel – an exercise in relaxation, a Spanish lesson lost in translation
Travel – an exercise in relaxation, a Spanish lesson lost in translation I used to vacation in the Dominican Republic where the weather was grand and the people fantastic, the friendliest in the Caribbean. It’s an island where music is the language of locals and stress does not exist. The national motto of the Dominion Republic is “Live [...]
The Toronto Maple Leafs – Worst Nicknames Ever
The Toronto Maple Leafs – Worst Nicknames Ever You know what’s wrong with the Toronto Maple Leafs in this, their forty-third consecutive season without a hope in hell of winning the Stanley Cup which they once co-owned with the Montreal Canadiens? Okay, besides the fact they let in a lot more goals than they score and with a two-goal lead [...]
