Gifted Typist

Go here to see photos in Flickr In winter, the ocean near my cottage ices over and you can literally walk on water – frozen water. The ice has mostly broken up now except for the sculptural schlogs that I found drifting slowly across the still water on Sunday. In the mist and against a [...]

Go here for live column. Women used to wax floors. Now they wax themselves. I was thinking about this the other day as I was having my brows done. “Waxing is a rip roarin’ good time,” I said to the esthetician. “You do the rippin’. I do the roaring.” So she ripped. And I roared. [...]

The NHL has entered playoff season. The good news is that Pittsburgh put a pounding on Ottawa. Good. We like Pittsburgh in this town because of our homegrown boy Sydney Crosby. The bad news is that these playoffs will go on and on and on. It’s not unusual for the Stanley Cup to be played [...]

They all live under the roof of this typist. They graded (and double graded!) the other day in Shotokan Karate. So anyone who even thinks about breaking into our house should be on notice. Unless it’s that cute Aussie in American Idol – he has special dispensation to break and enter at his leisure. This [...]

This important article was sent awhile back by GT commentator Dick. Research on bread indicates that: 1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users. 2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests. 3. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was [...]

Go to live column here. The musical legend Bob Dylan is coming to town and I scored a couple tickets online . But it wasn’t pretty. I knew they’d go fast, so I set up a little command centre at the computer. At 9 am on Saturday morning, I started dialing and loading the website. [...]

I thought you might enjoy this email. I wrote it to our local bridge commission in the hope of obtaining a pay-in-advance pass to cross our city’s two lovely suspension bridges. They are promoting these passes as a replacement for tokens which will be banned in two months time. You’d might think they would make [...]