Get Used To It
0From World Two, or at least the fifties, Canadians have become used to levels of service from municipal, provincial and federal governments that were never affordable or sustainable for the size of our population. During the Trudeau era, these services and other programmes brought on …
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View From The Train
I am writing this from our ‘banda’ at the Beho Beho Game Camp, on the Selous Range in eastern Tanzania. We have just completed a fantastic journey aboard the Rovos Rail train, on which we spent two weeks traveling from Cape Town, South Africa to …
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Afghan Fighting Kites
I have a penchant for framing and hanging items on our walls that were never designed to be displayed this way, if at all. Most I’ve brought home are from trips around the world, with the most recent from my time in Kabul, Afghanistan. Kabul, …
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CommonDawg is Back!!
Hello all my newsletter friends! After a year training for and serving in Afghanistan, CommonDawg is back, with a new format and other changes. However, I hope the basis of the writing will stay the same. That is, I will strive to make it worth …
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Scooters and Me
I unearthed a secret today. It is impossible not be cheerful when riding a scooter! I’m not sure if it is the funny little horn, that sounds – on my Ruckus at least – like two gnats fighting. Or possibly it is the buzzing of …
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Hate. Really?
How can one possibly hate somebody or something, if they have not met them or personally experienced that something?? ‘Hate’ is a term used too lightly, easily, ignorantly and incorrectly today . . .
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Staging the Olympic Games. Too Expensive?
Different figures have been thrown about regarding the cost to the UK of staging their Olympic Games, with 17 billion (Cdn) being one of them. Approximately 3-5 billion Canadian dollars where spent on Vancouver’s 201 Winter Olympic Games, if security, the Olympic Village and other …
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Horses and Carriages – The Conundrum
Walking Judd the Rockweiler the other morning, when a horse and carriage clip-clopped by. I love that sound and there are several of these carriages that do business in Victoria. I love horses. I love riding them,smelling them,feeding them,grooming them and rubbing their velvety muzzles. …
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Life Simplified
“It’s really all very simple”, she said. “Living life requires attention to only two factors: Choices and consequences. Understand the consequences of everything you choose BEFORE you make the choices, and life will be easier, simpler and happier.” “Oh”, I said.
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