Some men cherish a few hours in their workshop on a Saturday afternoon.  One began that way and ended with me buying into a nightmare – a two-year-old standard bred filly named Shilo Fantasy. On that fateful Saturday, there I was contentedly working on a project in my basement workshop.  Just before lunch, the basement … More The Filly Was a Nightmare

When three journalists climbed into the four-seater aircraft before leaving Yellowknife in the sub-arctic Northwest Territories, they had no idea all expectations for an uneventful ‘hop’ would evaporate around the mid-point of the planned flight. The destination was Hay River, an hour southwest by air across Great Slave Lake.  The journalists were en route in … More Emergency Supplies

All families have legends.  The Osborne family is no exception.  One of ours is how a woman and a man living many miles apart came to meet, to marry and to have 13 children. It was the mid-1850s, and teenager Mina Graves lived on her parents’ farm bordering the Petitcodiac River near Moncton, NB, Canada.  … More A Pettitcoat on the Petitcodiac

A SHORT SHORT STORY: Internationally celebrated violinist Yi-Jai Susanne Hou tells this story about how one person reacted when informed she’d been granted the use of a $6 million Stradivarius violin. Susanne told an audience recently she was in the middle of recording her latest CD when the loan agreement expired on an earlier premium … More The $6 Million Chrysler