WRIGHTS LANE

My girl Lucy loves Tim Horton's. Here she is ordering "two medium coffees with cream and one plain Tim Bit from the drive-thru men...

My granddaughter Becky could not believe the text message she had just received: "Go home Becky. There's a black SUV in your livin...

G uess what I had for lunch today?...A nice fat bologna sandwich, that's what! . You health nuts out there will no doubt take me to tas...

. I was talking to a fellow in the post office the other day. We were both grumbling about the increasing number of bills that we receive an...

Our summer weather this year has been spasmodic, to say the least, but flowers in our gardens seem to be flourishing. I share some of the J...

I f you ever wondered why I produce Wrights Lane, the following comment in response to my "One Couple's Journey With Cancer" s...

I received a message from a friend the other day. She was expressing delight in how things had developed in her life in the recent past and...

"Heavenly sunshine, heavenly sunshine, filling my life with glory Divine ..." We are all lovers of sunshine. The eyes brighten whi...

A couple of items ago I tested readers' knowledge and memory of "whetstones". Time now for another test. . What do you know ab...

. There are few hearts so hard, few spirits so churlish, as not to be affected by kindness. Think about it...a kind thought is influential, ...

O kay young people, here's a question for you. What is a whetstone? . Of course I gave you a clue by running the attached photo of two n...

C onsider this story from the imagination. A little girl, about four years of age, came crying to her mother as if her heart was breaking. S...

KEN'S LETTER BROKE THE ICE . O ne of my soon-to-be published books will be entitled Dresden Life Remembered . In putting this book toge...

We're making progress Hi folks, it's been a while! Just minutes ago I released final text and graphics to the publisher for the fir...

I am taking liberties by re-working slightly a poem forwarded to me by Dargan and Theresa Burns. The author of the original piece is uknown...

W e all know that kids will be kids . They always have been and they always will be. We all were kids at one time. Some of us still are kids...

I t is incredible how the more I talk to people from my home town of Dresden who respond to Wrights Lane, the more names from the distant pa...

The author of the following poem is unknown but I publish it here because it has special significance for me, and others in my life, at this...

Canadian military historian once a soap box derby kid . .. I am deeply indebted to Wanda Pellerin (Gray) of Dresden for sending me the ab...

The manager of the Walker House in Southampton has a weird sense of humor. By offering "free beer during all Maple Leafs playoff games...

R osanne has taken her malaprops to a new level. She has entered the realm of sayings and expressions in recent days. Commenting on a profe...

A week or so ago I asked a friend about the health of his elderly father who lives in a small town on the northern shores of Lake Erie. He s...

Hate waking up in the morning? .. . QUOTE OF THE DAY by my grandson Joshua Miguel Rocha on Facebook: "If you didn't wake up wouldn...

My last post (item below) was the result of rationalization on a depressed, discouraged frame of mind after a much anticipated and well-inte...

I find a measure of encouragement in my "horrorscope" for today. PISCES: If you can learn how to use your sense of humour to defu...

Good intentions can fall short . I just never learn! I have a tendency to put too much of myself into my undertakings and then when thing...

Click graphic for enlarged view. I have refrained from using Wrights Lane to discuss political issues, but I am breaking from precedent wi...