Musings as Hallowe’en Approaches

| September 6, 2008

“Like one, that on a lonesome road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.” ~ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~ I attended elementary school at Lunenburg Academy, […]

It’s Pissing Me Off

| September 4, 2008

Eats, Shoots & Leaves, The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss should be required reading in every school system that claims to teach English. Words can be misspelled in a sentence without losing your meaning. The ability to read “typo” is a vital skill, and we all forgive it when we encounter it. […]

After Action Report

| September 3, 2008

There’s an old saying: “Some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you.” On 5 July 2007, Sea Kayaking the Inside Passage posted this story on their website under the heading, Kayaker Fights Off Starving Wolf. As a wilderness survival instructor, and bush traveller of no small experience, I read this article […]