Along Battersea Road

ALONG Battersea Road, north of Kingston, Ontario, there is one of the many memorials erected by family and friends to a young man or woman killed in a car accident.  Often, they are victims of drunk driving, either killed by the idiocy of others or slain by their own.  This particular memorial was themed, with [...]

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Amherst Island

Along the northern shore road of Amherst Island are picket signs, taped or propped up against iron grates, stone walls and old farm fences, denouncing wind power and angrily demanding the island stay free of turbines.  At first, cycling along a road in which farms have disappeared to be replaced with the expansive, expensive wonderlands of [...]

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Soweto, June 16, 1976

       In lieu of actually writing about the anniversary of one of the most important and tragic events of the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa, here is a book, available fully and freely online, by Helena Pohlandt-McCormick. I Saw A Nightmare is an excellent and (so far) thorough study of the June 16, 1976 [...]

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“Paul Bernardo would never have murdered if he was a Christian.”

Rarely do I encounter the truly aggravating religious in my day-to-day life. It is rare that the dogmatic and unpleasant (not always synonymous) intrude into everyday experience, especially not in the blunt manner forced upon me today.  A home school tour visited.  A tour like this is always something of a Russian roulette, with the [...]

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