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27 November, 2013

THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE OF RECONCILLIATION

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S weeping societal issues under the carpet has never once contributed to the resolution of those issues.  For years I have been talking to m...
10 November, 2013

CARS I HAVE OWNED

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MY FIRST TWO CARS Left, 1949 Plymouth  Right, 1950 Monarch I was thinking today about all the cars that I have owned since I pur...
06 November, 2013

FIVE REASONS TO FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS

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T he concept of visualization as a means to attain a desired result first interested me as an over-the-hill athlete and I have spent conside...
02 November, 2013

A LOOK BACK AT "THE PROTESTANT" REFORMATION

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I wonder how many people calling themselves Christian today, actually remembered (knew?) that Thursday, October 31, was the 496th anniversa...
31 October, 2013

DOUBLE NEGATIVES: ONLY IN MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD CANADA YOU SAY!

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A double negative is the use of two negatives in a sentence which cancel each other out and create a positive. In today's world double n...
29 October, 2013

The Shadow Knows: My "scariest-ever" old time radio program, narrated by famous actor Orsen Wells, 1937. I still get shivers listening to this video. The program, loosely adapted from the popular pulp magazine series, told the story of Lamont Cranston, a wealthy young man-about-town who used his hypnotic powers to cloud men's minds so that they could not see him, fighting crime as an Invisible Avenger known only as The Shadow. As a five and six-year old I was pretty much held captive by my teenage cousins Jim and Norma Sharpe who delighted in my horror at the Shadow's heavy breathing as we listened to the program in my Aunt Hattie's living room.

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15 October, 2013

"THE FORTY-FIVE GUARDSMEN" BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS: HOW DID THIS NOVEL END UP IN A DRESDEN SCHOOL LIBRARY 100 YEARS AGO AND WHAT ABOUT IT INTERESTED MY FATHER?

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T he library I inherited from my parents continues to reveal surprise nuggets of history.  My recent discovery is a novel " The Forty...
10 October, 2013

MY STRUGGLES WITH MISUNDERSTANDING INVOLVED RATIONALIZATION AND, IN THE END, FORGIVENESS; BUT YOU CAN'T EXPECT TO WIN 'EM ALL SO JUST LET IT GO...!

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I recently ran into difficulty justifying a cautionary comment that I made in discussing an online virtual history group matter. Some of th...

A QUESTION: WHERE DO WE GET OUR ETHICS?

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A new study from the University of Pennsylvania suggests that people who strongly believe in God are more likely to reject the notion that ...
30 September, 2013

ALL TOGETHER NOW, LET'S HIT IT WITH GREAT EXUBERANCE

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S inging together can be an emotional experience. As churchgoers, choir singers or sports fans raise their voices as one, they feel connect...
24 September, 2013

NOSTALGIA: FOLKS LIKE ME ARE NOT CRAZY AFTER ALL ... WE'RE SIMPLY FILLING A VOID(?) IN OUR ABNORMAL LIVES

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As a nostalgist in the truest sense, I found the following of particular interest to me...There is comfort in knowing that I am not alone. ...
04 September, 2013

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Thanks for dropping in to Wrights Lane... *After more than 900 posts and with fading faculties, I will now be making occasional entries on...
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12 August, 2013

TODAY, HIS CHURCH IN TARA...TOMORROW, GRAND OLE OPRY

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This is a video of a young lad I have taken a special interest in. His name is Issiah Rose, he lives in Tara, Ontario, is 10 years of age ...
28 July, 2013

WHEN A FELLA NEEDS A PRAYER IT'S ROSANNE TO THE RESCUE

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I t is customary for Rosanne to prayerfully ask her late Polish grandmother to "come into my heart" when I am involved in certain ...
12 July, 2013

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I publish the following story on Wrights Lane, not only because of my love for the game of baseball and admiration for those who play and c...
08 July, 2013

LITTLE GIRL SAW BEAUTY IN AN IMPERFECT AFRICAN VIOLET

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I was shopping in our local Foodland grocery store (an almost daily routine for this chief cook and bottle washer these days) when my atten...
18 May, 2013

BRITISH WW2 WAR HERO WAS A DRESDEN, ONTARIO, NATIVE

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Quiet and shady Hughes Street in Dresden (circa 1910) as young Graeme Black would have known it. What follows is a story I stumbled upo...
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