Greetings. This will be the first in a series of reports I’ll be writing on the upcoming Torino Olympic games. Now, I know we’re two..three, four….four or five months away, something like that…uh, 150 days to go, but I have a mission to accmplish with these Olympics and I need to start early. I want […]
Walking the first morning of school I came across many little people, all accompanied by a hand-holding parent. The children were dolled up in new clothes and new backpacks. Their faces were shining with anticipation and no little anxiety. One little girl looked as fragile as a butterfly. Out of curiosity, I asked the mother […]
Greetings, Steve here, with another When Reality Knocks Lifestyle post. Today I’m going to talk about marriage proposals.
I’m in my late 20’s and at my age, it seems like everyone is either talking about marriage or doing it. I’ve had several conversations with friends, both male and female about this and it seems like […]
The aftermath of hurricane Katrina reminds us of any time we have been involved in a traumatic event. What it reminded me or was when Swiss AIR 111 crashed outside Halifax several years ago, with total loss of life. I worked on the team on that recovery operation, working as a `debriefer’, debriefing those […]
In previous posts I tried to cover some of the basic things that one should try to do to improve ones chances of survival. There are many other elaborate lists of both things on the web. Today we are going to do something different. What about the situation when we are not the survivor of […]
A little 13 year old girl when quizzed by a reporter about her experience in hurricane Katrina said: “I don’t want to talk about it.”
How foolish of the reporter to think that the girl would unburden her heart in front of the entire nation. Of course she will have to talk about her experience […]
Note: Before Hurricane Katrina, I had intended to write a series of humorous pieces on hurricane preparedness, but it just doesn’t seem funny anymore. I’m going to continue bringing my random thoughts to the page, trying to give people a few laughs while the world collapses, and Dad will be talking all week about […]
We are still absorbing the terrible images from Hurricane Katrina. The images are seared into our minds. Tens of thousands of cars fleeing New Orleans. Tiny children being airlifted into helicopters, people stranded on roof tops begging for rescue, thousands of stranded people jammed into the Superdome. 80% of the city underwater and thousands dead. […]