Things that go bump in the lake
Lake Kasshabog rocks! (If you don’t think so, check out the bottom of your boat) Midsummer is here and the lake levels are finally...
Our new normal.
Life has changed. I expected when I finally and fully retired that life would be somewhat different; never could have imagined this....
Cottaging in the age of Covid-19
Stuck inside, rummaging through old cottage photos as a mid-April snow coats the lawn furniture, and spring buds wear little white caps....
Back in prison again.
He had never been this close to an Esmonde-White concert grand piano and he just had to touch it, play it, regardless of the punishment...
Dear whoever you were, you just missed hitting a rock.
You must be new to the lake, otherwise you wouldn't have done that. You wouldn’t have blown full bore on your PWC with your kid in front...
Farewell, Ray Harvey, thanks for everything.
Years pass and great trees fall but the lake lives on. Children of the fallen reach greedy limbs toward the newly open sky, shedding no...
38 years, and yes, it's getting harder.
May Long Weekend, 2019 The ladder to the loft got longer last winter. And the rocks got rougher. Our disintegrating joints don’t much...
Welcome home, old friend.
Steve Denver is one of the old boys from the ‘biz who meet every Friday for lunch at The Beamish, a pub in Port Hope. Steve used to be...
The thing with the spider.
Illustration: Clancy Gibson, REACTOR ART+DESIGN I probably didn’t belong on the ladder to begin with. But there I was, up in the peak of...
Get a perch, straight down.
(This is my friend, Murray. Be sure to notice the perch in his right hand) It was getting kind of embarrassing to pull up to the gas...
