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Fathers Day 2015...Hmmmm! What kind of father have I been over the course of the last 55 years?  That's a difficult question to answer...

My father Ken first showed me the light of day, March 1, 1938...In that same context, I've been looking for another glimpse of it most...

I t's a lazy, rainy Sunday...And I planned to do so many outside chores today. Oh well, I can always do the laundry and some vacuum...

Occasionally on Wrights Lane I share with readers stories about people who have touched a certain chord with me.   Now that Father’s Day is ...

Several posts ago I published a short piece on "the secret to carrying a grief suit case."  Continuing in that vein, today I give ...

 This is me most mornings after breakfast.  

T ruthfully speaking, I am a bigtime tease.   I have many ways of venting what I have come to recognize as a compulsion to tease, or one who...

I don't know what it is lately, but I have been picking up on poignant lines from television movies. There is something about them tha...

"Grief is like a suitcase lying at the foot of your bed and when you wake up and take it with you in the morning sometimes it is too he...

Abraham believed and trusted God when he risked it all and took his family to a strange land. He did not question the Almighty, he simply pa...

I listened the other night to the magnificent Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra perform the "Hallelujah Chorus" composed by G...

I recently took a five-month sabbatical from writing of any kind and refrained from involvement in the social media scene.   It was a time ...

Bonnie and Clyde Killed: May 23, 1934   Posse that killed Bonnie and Clyde On May 23, 1934, the legendary criminals Bonnie and Cl...

Y esterday I wrote about the freedom of aging...Today I write about "the stupidity of aging."  Well, I guess it could apply to any...

T he other day I was going through an old jewelry box that I hadn't opened in years...Who uses cuff links, tie tacks and clips, collar p...

Click "View online" at http://www.tidbitsmj.ca/  to see "Wright Words" columns now appearing weekly in a Western Canada...

I am publishing this for my "Senior" friends because it is so well written. I do not know the author. It was sent to me by anot...

(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'...