Randy | July 2, 2011
As you all know, yesterday was spent in Kejimkujik National Park. The expedition included Mrs. LFM, me, Robbie our Australian Paddle Dog, and Peter “Bear Bait” Thomson in his capacity as photographer (voyageur AND voyeur), drinking companion, and source of endless amusement in spite of himself. His shovelling … I mean paddling … style has […]
Randy | June 26, 2011
My father was the oldest of seven children, and he, along with every one of his siblings, suffered from heart disease and high blood pressure. My father was diagnosed with angina when he was 40, and by the time he was 55 ended up with a triple bypass that saved his life and at last […]
Randy | March 27, 2011
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. ~ John Muir The twenty-fourth […]
Randy | March 6, 2011
Oddly enough, this poem was born from an intention to write something with a pretty beginning that set the reader up for a funny punch line involving the way Spring unveils just how much frozen dog shit has been slumbering under the snow and ice in our yard, and that blessed day when Nature does […]
Randy | January 4, 2011
In another one of those moments of serendipity I’m famous for, a few days ago I discovered Aston, an Australian group that does incredible covers of pop songs using traditional classical instruments. This is NO circus trick! Not only are they unbelievably talented, they’re hot by every definition of the term, and make it obvious […]
Randy | November 7, 2010
In 1983 I started a security consulting company called Whynacht Security & Survival. In 1984 I moved to a house on Lincoln Street in Lunenburg, and the picture on the left shows me thanking the gang that helped me move. That same year, I expanded the company’s services to include alarm monitoring and emergency dispatching […]
Randy | November 3, 2010
I was a kid with interests in all areas of science and, by the time I was 8 years old, had a well equipped chemistry lab set up in the basement of the house I grew up in. I had a flair for showmanship and was often asked by my teachers to put on demonstrations […]
Randy | November 2, 2010
My grandfather survived “The Great War” and before leaving England married Violet Axtle of Surrey. The two returned to Canada, briefly residing in East Chester before moving to Montreal where they started their family of six, an even mix of girls and boys. The second youngest was my mother, Evelyn. 46 years old when the […]
Randy | November 1, 2010
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.” ~ Zen saying Much has been written about what people believe in. This article is exclusively about something my life experience has led me not to believe in – coincidence. Too many times I have found myself, through a seemingly random sequence of events and apparently capricious […]
Randy | November 1, 2010
Yesterday, Mrs. LFM was able to capture an amazing phenomenon – that with his magick ball in his teeth, our dog Milo can fly!