As I write this it almost feels like I am doing something wrong putting laughter in the same title as the word grief. It does raise some questions doesn’t it?

I’ve been carrying this quote around in my head for months now. It’s from “Black Elk Speaks, The Life of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux,” as told through John G Neihardt.

Someone said, “I received a phone call saying I won $35,000.00. To complete the transaction, they needed my bank details. Certainly, I replied. It’s a big building on Main Street.”

Pulling out of my sister’s driveway in Medicine Hat, I am on the last leg of my journey home from a sojourn on Cortes island with my brother who suffered a stroke two months ago.

There’s an old saying: “If you ask a question, it makes you look stupid for five minutes, but if you don’t ask - you stay stupid for 50 years”.

I am looking at a picture of my brother the first day he walked among his garden beds after leaving the hospital. He has a white beard, deep smile lines radiate from his bright, shining blue eyes.

After downing half his glass of milk, the ten-year-old declared, “I am an optimist; the glass is half empty.” His mother corrected him and said looking at a glass as half empty is a sign of pessimism.

It is said that there are really only two emotions. They are love and fear. Love encompasses all the pleasant emotions that we feel such as joy, peace and gratitude.

My sister, my brother and I are looking at his MRI. It’s a sobering moment. It’s also fascinating. Despite how annoying it is to hear doctor after doctor say: “You’re very lucky”…

A dad handed his son a book and said, “It’s called reading. It’s how people install new software into their brains.” However what we read and hear is in danger of being censored.

HELP! Our Wheatland Senior Centre in Eston is in financial trouble. Up to the beginning of the pandemic (March, 2020) our club was on a sound financial basis.

Twenty years ago, the federal government spent $110 million on advertising, which was managed by 30 advertising agencies.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on the federal government to reject the unaffordable and unsustainable demands from the Public Service Alliance of Canada.

April 1, 1996 my life was changed drastically and permanently. I had been suffering for a few months with literally no energy and then my toes started to turn purple and get ulcers and lesions on them…

My father-in-law possesses a wealth of stories and sayings. He shared a recent anonymous quote: “If two people always agree, one of them isn't necessary.”

Last night I showed my brother the documentary “Wild Prairie Man” about my friend James R. Page who has spent the last few decades photographing the wild prairie of Grasslands National Park.

Today we ventured into the garden. Time to clear the rest of the sweet carrots buried over winter. To space the strawberry plants and spread the chicken shit.

The taxi driver was telling his passenger, “What I like most about my job is the independence. I’m my own boss. No one tells me what to do; I make my own decisions.”

Imagine waking Thursday morning and not quite knowing what “morning” means, let alone Thursday. Imagine this happens on Friday, too.

A common joke goes like this: there is freedom of speech in China, but there is no freedom after speech. It’s meant to be humorous…