Gifted Typist

Dropped into the grocery store the other day for some milk. I came out with peaches, strawberries, romaine lettuce, cherries, oven potatoes, cold sandwich meats, yellow beans, two-year aged cheddar cheese, pita bread, chicken thighs, sausage, bubbly water, frozen fruit, frozen juice, yogurt, fresh-cut flowers and butter. I didn’t come out with milk. The cost? [...]

There were no floods, famine or pestilence. No frogs fell from the sky. We weren’t struck by lightning. And other than the severe thunder storms, heavy rainfall, severe winds (90-100 km), the rivers of muck, the rented trailer that was acting as stand-in for the still-being-renovated cottage which was supposed to be finished by now, [...]

Why is it that optometrists always do their testing in dimly-lit rooms? And why do they always have these unrealistic expectations of what the human eye can actually see in these dimly lit rooms? Last week, when my optometrist asked me to read that bottom line of microscopic-sized letters, the only letters I could produce [...]

OK all you prickly pedants out there, tell me: How do you pronounce it? Harry Potter or Hairy Potter? I keep hearing announcers on CBC Radio say Hairy. Hairy Potter. That doesn’t sound right somehow. Doesn’t the name Harry rhyme with the name Mary? Harry. Mary. Hairy? Mairy? Hari Kari. Eek! This isn’t a phonetics [...]