WRIGHTS LANE

The last time I told the following story in a social media forum it generated considerable reaction.  I re-visit it this week for the edific...

I find this to be an interesting and fascinating undertaking.  Couldn't resist the impulse to share it with readers of Wright Lane.  I...

S askatchewan sports fans have a new home-grown hero to cheer for and not before it was deserved. After toiling in the minor leagues of prof...

REFLECTIONS: ANOTHER "DOOR" TO THE PAST MY FAMILY HOME in Dresden from a water colour painting done by me (1998).  Note t...

I have written before about my penchant for engaging strangers and distant acquaintances in conversation.  I especially delight in favorabl...

S ometimes it is the small things in life that do your heart the most good. I was working in my front terrace the other evening when t...

Casey Chaplin is married to my granddaughter Alyssa. They are newly-weds and currently live in Brampton, ON. Casey displays a uniquely ...

S elf confession time. In the eight years that I served as a newspaper sports editor, I figure that I produced at least 600 "Time Out...

F or the better part of a year I have been sorting through a lifetime of personal possessions, reluctantly yet ruthlessly opening boxes and ...

WE SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE OUR BLESSINGS Dream inspired version of what happens in Heaven A man dreamt that he went to Heaven and a...

Imperfection is perfection H ow many times have your heard someone say..."It's not a perfect world, but..."? To my way o...

D o you know what being “enlightened” really means? Does it mean you’re connected to something greater? That you’re more spiritual than most...

N at Fein described himself as “just a human interest photographer”, but on June 13, 1948, the young New Yorker captured one of the greatest...

L ittle did good old chum Bob Peters know when he posted a Toronto Sun guest column by Tom Harris on his Facebook timeline a few days...

H ere is a newspaper column I wrote almost 50 years ago when I was Sports Editor for the Simcoe Reformer newspaper. I resurrected it this p...