Called in to work: again.
MAY 18, 2022 MIDWAY, BC Wednesday— This was to have been a week devoted to planting in the garden, but just as I was finding my pace forking over a half-decomposed heap of compost from last year, a call came from the local secondary school asking if I would accept an ‘on-call’ assignment for the…
#229. In the Eye of the Perfect Storm – 2
The title of this and its previous, more elaborated version is “The Perfect Storm”, however another title, “The Expected Storm” might serve equally well for those who are familiar with the arguments advanced by Dr. Timothy Morgan since (at least) 2013. This shorter version provides an excellent entry point for those who are trying to…
No time for clogged drains
MIDWAY, Tuesday—The sewer backed up in our basement last weekend, as I learned when I came in from moving compost in the garden, so I made a wry face and did my best to ignore the obvious: that I didn’t really have a clue what to do about it. Denial is of no help when…
After Ottawa
Truckers’ protest in Ottawa: what happened to turn Canada into such a hot-mess? In Canada, if there wasn’t before, there’s now a palpable sense of public discontent, which might be attributed to a variety of causes, but it’s visible for all to see. What’s behind such a marked changes to what were thought to be…
#4 Beware the ides of November!
Before all memory of it slumps into the torrent and is washed away downstream, I want to comment on the aftermath of the rainstorm that stalled over Southern British Columbia on November 15th, 2021. Two weeks on from that singular event, media have been filled with stories about the unprecedented flooding and destruction caused by…
#3 Welcome!
If you haven’t been here before, welcome to my new website. If you haven’t done so already, do subscribe to it and consider leaving a comment or two, or three or more. Ask questions, stimulate conversation, editorialize. For now, I am quite open, not closed to conversations, so feel free to ‘talk-back’ to me if…
Mask wearing while teaching on-call is not that easy.
I’ve found that teaching while wearing a mask is a challenge. So it’s easy to imagine that learning while wearing a mask is also a challenge for the Kindergarten, grade 1 and grade 2 students who are wearing masks all day in their elementary school classrooms. For too long in British Columbia, too many of…
Trying to save money, improve your health and simplify your life? BC’s ‘proof of vaccination required’ list just might help
Instead of downloading the BC Government’s vaccine passport app, I’m just going to avoid the places the Provincial Health Officer has ordered the passport be shown. When the BC Vaccination Passport was announced last week, along with the list of venues where people would be required to show it, I realized right away that a…
My tangled garden (II)
Early morning in the garden, indeed, visiting the garden at any time time during the day is almost always a calming, salutary experience; it’s a natural remedy for many ailments both real and imaginary. Inside the perimeter of the deer fence, there is no risk of contracting Covid-19, and though it might be prudent…
(My) Tangled Garden (1)
J.E.H. MACDONALD “Tangled Garden” My garden is probably too large for me to manage on my own, and I’m painfully aware that the garden I hold in mind has fallen short, far short of my own minimal standard of success in each of the last four gardening seasons. I first time I’ve pushed my spade…
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