The Pedalogue

Sending out New Year's wishes to all my blogger friends around the world. I especially want to thank those who have given me such supp...

There was an intriguing article in our local Vancouver Sun on December 26th written by Ethan Baron . It is entitled "Xenophobes beware...

John Lennon wrote the song " Woman ," as an ode to his wife Yoko Ono long after the Beatles had disbanded. He called it the ...

As I headed out last Friday evening to attend my village's annual tree-lighting ceremony, the village clock caught my eye. I liked how ...

" Once upon a time " is a stock phrase that has been used since around 1380, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, in the te...

Once a teacher , always a teacher , unless like me you become a tutor after you retire. Today , I thought I'd tell you all a few tot...

The weather has been rather frightful here this past week, but we seem to be back to our normal grey drizzle, sometimes turning to periods o...

I'm almost finished Kenneth Follett's newest novel, "Fall of Giants," a sweeping saga set on the tumultuous stage of Wo...

I just finished reading (for the second time) Sebastian Faulks' Charlotte Grey , the story of a young Scottish woman who went on a dual...

I've been feeling quite querulous lately, as though I'm living in a quagmire . But, I've decided it must all stop. Enough of ...

I'm so tired today. My brain feels like mush and I can't think straight. I've had more work than I really need and I think I...

My first night in Italy at the Piazza Navona (Rome) having pizza for dinner Here I am with the group in Tuscany! I'd love to go back...

I have just finished reading the most wonderful book by the Seattle author, Garth Stein. I'm a sucker for dogs so the idea of a book wri...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a children's book written by British author Roald Dahl and was published in 1964. It's the sto...

I have nothing today. I even looked through the crossword puzzle dictionary and there were lots of N -words. But nothing has come to me t...

Haunted : (1) to inhabit, visit, or appear to in the form of a ghost or other supernatural being or (2) to come to the mind of continually o...

I was really looking forward to spending the rest of my life with Lorne. We had planned on getting married this past September, but had to...

L ast Friday, October first, I spent a lovely morning sipping a Starbucks' Americano Misto ( light , extra hot) and nibbling on homemad...