Opinion

I was about to sit down for my usual Saturday noon-hour visit with friends at Cochrane Coffee Traders a few weeks ago, upstairs in the room with the big table, when suddenly an amazing image appeared on the wall.

The morning of March 6 was very peaceful. We were having breakfast at the Kibosho Lodge, only 200 metres from the Umbwe gate, the start point of our climb. It certainly hadn’t been that way the previous 24 hours.

Is the Cochrane transit question a tempest in a teapot or a legitimate issue? Are we being stampeded into a transit system beyond our means or are we judicious in our planning for the future? It depends on who one talks to.

Many, I’m sure, won’t believe this, but I wasn’t around in the 1500s. I’m not sure about publisher, Jack, but for sure I wasn’t there. However, I found an interesting piece while reading a magazine in a doctor’s office.

In the 2010 film The Way, Martin Sheen plays a distracted grieving American eye doctor who discovers the meaning of companionship while walking the Camino de Santiago (the Way of St.

Even being as long of tooth as I am, some government decisions astound me. The provincial government has announced the elimination of a plan that will save taxpayers one million bucks. Sounds like we’re onto a good thing, but pursue it a tad further.

“I can’t do this anymore,” I told him. “I want quality days instead of quantity days. I’m done with chemo.” To my amazement, he replied, “I’ll never ask you to do chemo again.” Yahoo! You have no idea how grateful I am that my doctor is on my side.

It would appear that we are not done with the snowfall — dang it! It was so nice for a couple of days, horses were starting to shed out, birds were chirping — it just felt like spring.

The headline event for March at Seniors on the Bow (SOTB) is the third in the Voice of the Pioneers series. A provocative title, “All You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask,” will be addressed by Dr.

Among the responses to last week’s column on forgiveness, one praised a lifelong hero of mine, and even set the stage for seeing another of my heroes, Time magazine’s runner-up for 2012 Person of the Year, in a new light.