I’ve always considered the phrase ‘foul play’ a paradox. ‘Play’ suggests frivolity. When the headline screams, “Inspector Wise Suspects Foul Play!” in the sudden disappearance of Izzy Gone, I don’t believe the reader is conjuring up lazy days at the beach observing kids splashing water joyously while sneaking peaks at buxom volleyballers diving in...
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Truckers and couriers know. Postal workers know. Luggage handlers know. My wiser, handsomer, braver, younger brother knows. Alas, what do they all know? People ship weird things to do with odd addictions. This is a true story because my brother, never a liar, told me. This guy in a quaint village 100 miles more...
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I went into a retail store on the weekend and in my usual way, offered an upbeat greeting to the young fellow at the cash register. ‘How are you today?’ I cheerfully asked. His answer was anything but what I might have expected though… “I feel stuck,” he gloomily responded, saying this with the...
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Baby Jessica (McClure) is the then 18-month-old who fell into a well in her backyard in 1987. She is now a wife and mother. In 2011, McClure turned twenty-five, and received trust fund donations of approximately $800,000. Over the years, McClure had 15 surgeries relating to the accident. Fortunately, she claims not to have...
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Greetings to all! What a week (well, actually a couple weeks), this has been. Let me tell you, between the long weekend, what with my birthday, the Family Day weekend with the Winterfest/Vintage Snowmobile show, a short, busy week at work, the tech rehearsal for the 6th Annual Fort’s Got Talent at the Shell...
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The wheat crop in 1936 was not a high yielding crop. The grade was #1 but the yield was about 20 bushels to the acre. It was a very dry summer so the straw was very short. The binders couldn’t make a good sheaf so while stooking and threshing it a lot of the...
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VIDEO GAMES GOOD FOR SURGEONS? A report from researchers in Italy indicates that Laparoscopic surgeons may improve certain aspects of surgical performance by regularly playing on a Nintendo Wii. BEAUMONT WINS AGAIN. The town of Beaumont has again won top honours in the Family Day Unplugged challenge, with residents in that community logging 48,484...
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Cussing was only habitual for this individual for about a year – something about adolescence and limits. As soon as a curvy girl in a red dress told me she found it disturbing and low, I discontinued. It was hard enough getting girls to notice at all, without such additional impediments. This cessation of...
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Sometimes we live in fear when events happen that are out of our control. It may be a natural disaster, or it may be a disaster caused by the stupidity of a human being — one who wants to become almost supernatural, and to have a control over everyone and everything, and be the...
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Eddie Fisher was one of (actress) Elizabeth Taylor’s former husbands. But most of us in a certain age group probably best remember Eddie Fisher and his first wife Debbie Reynolds… the first of Fisher’s five wives. Fisher, born in 1928, died in 2010. Reynolds, born in 1932, is still alive and enjoying her net...
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