WRIGHTS LANE

(W)right on… Waste not, want not It’s astonishing and rather disgusting that $31 billion in food is wasted annually in Canada – or 40%...

 The weather in the past week may have moderated but it is still a winter wonderland along the Lake Huron shoreline at Southampton.  I...

I n keeping with the February "love" theme, did you know that in the 19th century, sending paper Valentines through the mail go...

It’s February, the month of looooove! In times like this it is easy to get distracted by STUFF — boxes of chocolates, jewelry, stuffed ...

A good news story worth passing on   The entire school body at G. C. Huston Public School in Southampton learned about Alzheimer'...

H ow should we respond when people are murdered for insulting the religious sensibilities of radical jihadist Muslim terrorists? Should they...

I am sure that most of my readers have heard of Fred Rogers.  Certainly, two generations of my family grew up with him. The unassuming Fr...

  The New Year 2015  arrived like a lion in Southampton at midnight, bringing with it sub zero temperatures, blizzard proportion winds and ...

CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS, MY FRIENDS! B ecause 'tis the season, I have been thinking (and writing) a lot lately about giving. I have al...

C hristmas has become such an all-embracing, virtually secular event in western culture that people find it difficult to avoid, irrespective...

IT REMAINS TO BE "SEEN": A few days ago I stated that I was serving as a "seeing-eye person" for my blind dog Lucy...Poo...

Three eye surgeries in the past eight months and $10,000 in veterinarian fees later, my little girl Lucy is now totally blind.  I am her ...

T he current, unexpected and premature blast of winter has been the topic of conversation in my world for the last couple of days.  One rat...

HMCS Atholl K15 was a modified Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the  Second World War . She foug...

The practice of presenting tiny gold caterpillar pins to anyone who saved their life by parachuting from a disabled or flaming aircraft, s...

People have so many different ideas about angels, but the only authoritative guide in understanding angels is the Bible -- God's Word.  ...

I have a major problem with my short-term memory.  How bad is it, you ask? It is so bad that I lose things that aren't really lost. I...

Ken Wright (left) and Eldred Brandon, lifetime  friends and members of the Dresden Continuation  School Soccer Team, 1914-15. My ...