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Category Archives: Travel
Clear Creek Abbey
This was far too blessed to blog about in any serious way, so I won’t. But I WILL mention that for culture shock, there’s nothing like the Route 66 Diner chili cheese omelette on the way to the airport from … Continue reading
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Peggy’s Cove
In a place like this, at a time like this, the pictures take themselves. It’s like walking in the woods and finding yourself in a clearing full of roses, already tied up in bouquets and ready for the picking.
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Breakfast in Thunder Bay
I’d forgotten what a comfort the Husky gas station and diner is. It’s the only chain built on that bastion of small hospitality (and therefore of Christendom), the leathery, blunt old waitress with a heart of gold. Countless weary truckers … Continue reading
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Serendipity
Well THAT was unexpected: I will never know exactly how many hours I stood at the Huron’s transom, watching the Pacific go by, trying to stay awake, and waiting to pitch a lifebuoy after some poor sailor on his way … Continue reading
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Sou’wester Restaurant
Last time I visited Peggy’s Cove, I tried, and loved, Solomon Gundy and fish hash with beans and green tomatoes. This time, I discovered blueberry grunt. It may have been invented to disguise a dropped upsidedown cake, by breaking it … Continue reading
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Small Business Management
Homeless can collector, Spring Garden Road, Halifax: “Well, the first year students don’t drink as much as they used to; just have their heads in their books. I lost a lot of clients when the school year changed over, and … Continue reading
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Why you shouldn’t live near Vancouver
On Thursday, I dropped my Mom at work, got a haircut, picked up some wine and pastries, visited two friends, and covered well over a hundred miles in the process.
Say What?
On the top of Google’s listing for weird emails today: Dear Father, Bad news: When I set the tenth Sunday after Pentecost as the first day for the Kinkoriites to sing the Propers, I’d forgotten that my boss is expecting … Continue reading
Posted in Health and Illness, Music, Travel
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Catholic Traveller
“I also asked him for coffee, and as he refused it I took him to be a heretic and went down the road making up verses against all such, and singing them loudly through the forest that now arched over … Continue reading
Turner Winehunt ’08
I found the above-mentioned winery on a roadtrip with my brother through BC’s wine belt, the length of the Okanagan Valley* from Osoyoos up through Kelowna. While I wouldn’t encourage anyone to weigh my opinion on wine with much gravity, … Continue reading
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