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The Ranger Bay Boys
A Lifetime of Friendships By the late 80s, I had lived in Aylmer, Lindsay, London, Truro Nova Scotia and back in Aylmer again. After the experience in Nova Scotia, I was determined to get involved in the community and thus began to volunteer to coach minor hockey. I was still playing at the time and…
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A July 4th Like No Other
The Entire USA Celebrated. Monday July 4th 2022, we celebrated the birth of our second grandson. At 34 weeks, Lewis William Wolfe was a little early, but healthy, happy and breathing on his own, though only 3 lbs, 15 Oz. Geoff and Martha have been under so much stress, but weathered the storm and brought…
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Anatomy of a Predator
The Bait I was 11 years old. In the summer of 1966 a man my father employed from time to time, began showing an interest in me. In his mid twenties, he drove truck for dad part time, delivering tobacco to the warehouse, or grain to the local elevators. He was a cool guy, or…
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A Father’s Day Tribute
A Proud Father My father passed in 1993, at the age of 72 years. I thought at the time that he had lived a good life – and he had. But I did not appreciate at the time, how much life he had yet to live. Yet, as I get older I appreciate those unlived…
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The Making of a Hunter
The Mentor The smell. Man I loved that smell. When I was small, my dad left for deer hunting for 2 weeks in November. It was a long trip at the time and 2 weeks made it all worthwhile. When he returned, I remember him coming into my bedroom to tell me he was home.…
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Gun Violence in the USA
Land of the Free and Home of the Brave? That ship has sailed folks. Yesterday there was yet another mass shooting in the United States. This time in an elementary school in Texas. 19 innocent children and 2 adults woke up yesterday morning and went to school, like they have countless other days. Little did…
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A Woman and A Secret
Rebellion There once was a very rebellious 17 year old teenage girl, living on a dairy farm in rural Aylmer Ontario. She was a clever gal, and set to graduate early from high school. About 5’3”, shoulder length brown hair, slim build and sparkling blue eyes, she was a catch. Not unusual for her age,…
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Growing Up in Vienna – Part 3
A Small Town is a Close Town When you live in a place as small as Vienna, you inevitably know most of the people, through school, sports, part time jobs, church or otherwise. This was certainly the case in my life. There are so many people that influenced me in one way or another and…
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Dog Daze
The Big Send Off In late May 1979 I was approaching my wedding day. As was the custom, it was common for a group of close friends and co-workers to host a “stag” for the pending groom. One last fling as it were. My boss Bill Jeneraul and his brother-in-law Bill Edwards (also a co-worker)…
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The Beginning and Very Sudden End of a Career in Comedy
Everybody Loves a Clown, So Why Don’t You? ….With Apologies to Gerry Lewis and the Playboys There was a point in my life that I thought George Carlin was the funniest man alive. He of the “7 things you can’t say on TV” and important to me at the time, an epic explanation on the…
