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Written By Mary Nunn, Strathroy Working Artist, Educator & Mentor Blue is a cool colour, swimming pools are a blue/green, try and imagine diving into a red pool? In the…
Written By John Caverhill “Let’s have another cup of coffee;Let’s have another piece of pie.” Those words from a popular depression-era song reflected the hopelessness of those times when one…
Written By Donna Costa Mons-Natalie was a stage name. I presumed it was my great-grandfather, William Beilstein, but circus history sites have no record of Natalie’s true name on any…
Written By John Caverhill A few weeks ago, I took a trip in time at three-quarters of a century, and I did it not by time machine but by car,…
Written By Jillean McClory, The London Writers Society (LWS) Have you hit stop lately? Taken a breath for fun or self-care? Or are you too busy trying to fit a…
Written By Donna Costa My search was about to die when I returned to the letter William had penned to his sister in 1890:“I have come to Chicago again to…
Written By Brad Harness I recall when I was talking with my grandson. His mother had dropped him off at my condo and the boy was eager to do something…
Written By John Bradley The Moon is Earth’s only permanent natural satellite. It is the fifth largest natural satellite in the Solar System, and the largest among planetary satellites relative…
Written By John Caverhill I was eleven years old when I first met Bibby, or ‘Old Bibby’ as he was usually called. His faded black attire accentuated his elderly appearance…
Dear Editor, I’m 67 years old—a stone-cold hard fact I sometimes can’t get my mind around. In a time, not so long ago, I was young. I took my youth…
Written By Mary Nunn, Strathroy Working Artist, Educator & Mentor Red is a primary colour; its compliment is green, a mixture of the other two primary colours, yellow and blue.…
Written By John Caverhill Hay cutting started around the last week in June just as the summer holidays began. The term ‘holidays’ was definitely euphemistic because some of the hardest…
Written By Krista Carson, The London Writers Society (LWS) At the gym—that silent disco—or in the grocery linewhen you forget the yogurtbut think of all seventeen waysspiders are like stars&…
Written By John Caverhill Through the mid-1950s many local softball/fastball diamonds were constructed. Being much smaller than hardball diamonds made them much more affordable, especially in rural communities, and graded…
Written By John Caverhill For the past while, I have been basking in the warmth of birthday greetings from family and friends, and let me tell you, all the money…
The captivating story of Scottish immigrant Peter McEwan who, in his quest for adventure, made a discovery that shaped the future of Southwestern Ontario Written By The LWS Book Club…
Written By John Caverhill It is I, not you, that is writing these columns. So, it is ultimately my responsibility to be sure each article is free of errors. I…
Written By John Caverhill “In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.” In the case of an old man (me) memories of activities on the…
Written By Emily De Angelis, The London Writers Society (LWS) I was introduced to the work of Canadian painter Florence Carlyle in 2019 on my first visit to the Woodstock…
Written By John Caverhill It was a late May day in 1948 and I had just turned twelve years old. Dad met me as I got home from school and…
Dear Editor,On April 14th, the Municipality of Strathroy-Caradoc erected a long overdue sign in Southfield Park solving an ongoing mystery—the park’s actual name. I am grateful for the new sign.A…
Written By Brad Harness Francine was not a big woman and when she collided - let herself collide - with her neighbour Mark, she more or less bounced off of…
Written By John Bradley The term “Artificial Intelligence” was formally introduced in 1956 during the Dartmouth Conference, organized by computer scientist John McCarthy and other pioneers. Researchers believed that machines…
Baby chicks grow very quickly, and in a few weeks are developing feathers and becoming increasingly mobile. Newly hatched chicks are fed chick-starter, a specially formulated, finely ground mix of…
Written By Nancy Abra, The London Writers Society (LWS) For weeks, the landscape has been frozen in winter’s grasp. White, blackish-green, tones of grays and browns, lifeless in colour. Our…
Written By John Caverhill Adam Bailey and his wife Gertrude, whose farm adjoined ours, had six sons. After the warl, their third son Harold, just out of the army, started…
Written By Brad Harness Reggie had been a good friend for the past decade. He was fun to talk to, thoughtful, and occasionally, helpful. Today was one of those occasions.“Here’s…
In Gaelic, ‘bagpipe’ translates into P’iob mho’r, literally meaning ‘big pipe’.Bagpipes were traditionally made from the skin of a whole animal, most often a sheep. The skin would be turned…
Written By John Caverhill Like most farmers in the era of the general farm, we kept a flock of laying hens which was replaced every fall. Each year in early…
Written By Diane Kirby, The London Writers Society (LWS) It was the end of a two-week tour of Morocco: another solo journey since my husband had passed away seven years…