Another Swell Adventure
This time the swells are in the North Atlantic Ocean. Not that they are as daunting as the ones …
Category Archives: holidays
How to Hug a Cow
Last week it was pigs getting the munchies; this week it’s hugging livestock. I hope you don’t get the idea …
Navajo Star Wars and Wind Talkers
What a great idea! — the Navajo Nation is beginning work on a project to dub the 1977 movie, Star …
Groundhog Cruise
The Caribbean is all about two things: beaches and jewellery. If neither of those things rings your bell, then …
Four Friends, Finger-lickin’ Food, Plus Fun and Frivolity, Equals One Fine Holiday
I forgot to mention a lot of work. But the work didn’t get in the way of all the other …
On the Road Again
Warning: The following is another exercise in Advanced Avoidance Behaviour, as discussed in a previous article (August 21, 2011). I’m about to hit …
Thanksgiving Fiasco #3
Hasn’t everyone had the occasional disaster happen with the Thanksgiving Dinner? If you haven’t, you obviously haven’t hosted Thanksgiving. I’m …
Oops! It’s New Year’s Eve
You may have worked out that I’m not really a Christmas person, but I am rather fond of New Years. In …
Merry Christmas and Other Oxymorons
oxymoron – noun: a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect; a contradiction of terms. …
Christmas Shopping? Or Would You Prefer a Root Canal?
Christmas, I reckon, has three facets: the religious, the commercial, and the traditional. If none of those rings your …
