THERE’S AN EASY WAY to tell you’ve been spending too much time with the Cree,…
Category: Humor
Humorous essays for everyday life, by Wayne K. Spear
Photo by Jezz, “Winter Traffic” on Flickr. I WAS IN WINNIPEG, Manitoba last week,…
In many places around this world, I would be killed just for posting this dumb…
IF YOU LIVE in Canada, or northern USA, you know how nasty Winter can be.…
LAST MONTH my family went on a mission. It was my son’s idea, and it…
THE OXFORD English Dictionary says that resolution comes from a Latin word, resolvĕre, meaning “to…
I DON’T RECALL who first said that time is an illusion: it could have been…
YEARS AGO, I bought the 1929 Elgin art deco watch pictured above. Recently the crystal…
A FEW YEARS AGO a fictional person I’ll call Max discovered video games. He loved…
AN EX-HITMAN [Keanu Reeves] comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took…
I‘M SURE you’ve all seen it: the offensive “Native” stereotype of the guy who has…
DEPRESSION, war and totalitarianism. Who doesn’t get nostalgic thinking about the 1920s, 30s and 40s?…
RUNNING WAS INVENTED 4,600,000 years ago by our human ancestors, Australopithecus. In the 34th Century…
SCHOOL DAYS. They were so long ago, you probably don’t remember them. Or maybe what…
Jingle Bells Obviously the bells jingle: that’s what they are made to do. Try “bells,…