Missing out on all the fun
Man, I hate being sick. But I despise being sick on a big weekend.
Yeah, I missed RetroFest and Rock N Roar. Rather than checking...
I can’t hear you – literally
Jessica Blair, an early childhood educator, puts in her earplugs as part of Hard of Hearing Day. On May 15, a group of local...
Cinco de Beero a hit
Chuck Young and Dave Richie are onto something.
I attended their Cinco de Beero Saturday at T-Bones, with about 150 other lucky folks, and enjoyed...
7 Fingers wow Chatham crowd
I took our daughter to a dance performance last week because my wife had other commitments. Yeah, it was a heck of a tough...
Will I hear you?
My ears are mouldy.
Or were moulded, anyway.
I slipped down to the Canadian Hearing Society’s offices on Thames Street Thursday to get fitted for earpieces....
Sometimes it pays to stay put
I’m starting to get up there in age. I ache, yet I spent a good deal of the weekend outside doing yard work.
It was...
A great night for the Festival
Would someone please tell Mother Nature to stop having spring temper tantrums? After a great weekend weather-wise (aside from that nasty storm that hit...
Are birthday parties for the kids or parents?
You have to love children’s birthday parties where the parents have almost as much fun as the kids.
That was the case Sunday when I...
BBQ dilemma: repair or replace?
Ahh, glorious sunshine and temperatures above the freezing mark, well above, in fact.
We got a nice sampling of spring recently. After that long, cold...
Whirlwind dance season begins
The weekend after St. Patrick’s Day is always a crazy one at our house, for two reasons. The first is because it’s generally our...