- from a story Daddy liked to tell . . . His wife was tired, she looked a ‘fright’,  With babies, she’d been up all night. “He said, “Hun, r...

  Dumb and Dumber . . . and the riding pad (BP- Before Pee). Not using a saddle really did pose certain challenges. Being unable to use a ro...

It was HER fault... College years are for making all sorts of mistakes. Right? Well, that's what I tell myself. But this is one I didn...

Put on (Most of) Your Sunday Clothes Ready, set... We are and always have been, a Church attending family. We love it. And I was raised to b...

Only in Summer... I love beaches—they love me, The two of us are friends, you see, And sitting on a beach is swell, With water, warm. And sa...

  The day I realized just how good I had it . . . For the first twelve years of my life, 'cleanliness' and I really only had a noddi...

  Mom Usually, the first thing we kids in the Stringam home heard in the morning was the kitchen radio. On a country channel. This was follo...

  I’m working on a new book! My Mom’s memoirs: glimpses of a rancher’s wife—wife-ing and mother-ing on the vast Southern Alberta prairies. T...

Father and son. My second son is a large man. Large. Six foot eight in his stockinged feet. When he puts boots and a hat on, considerably ta...

Cause Garlic is an awesome herb with benefits galore, It’s nutritious, but adds flavour and detoxifies and more! Improves bone health, l...

Okay, in hindsight, ‘going to the park’ was probably a good idea. Being cooped up in lock down with Sally AND Mort can sometimes resembl...