Before I tell you about the car crash, today’s fun fact is that 166 years ago, on May 31, 1859, Big Ben in London, the world’s largest four-faced chiming clock, started its first tick-tock. So let’s talk about time. An older friend recently told me how time speeds up as you age. You know the other expressions. Time waits for nobody.
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It’s easy to get so distracted and even discouraged in life that we miss the point of it all, so busy or otherwise preoccupied with the clattering noise that we miss how ordinary events – a casual walk or a train ride home – can show the world’s beauty and order. Mathematics has order. In middle school I’d walk
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I think my wife is in love with the entire Montreal Canadiens hockey team. Naturally, these guys are young. And rich. And cool. Nick Suzuki has to be the most hip and humble NHL captain out there. So my wife, a lifelong Leafs fan, recently put on my Habs jersey along with our son’s Habs hat and off she and I went to
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Today, between Easter’s chocolate rabbits and coloured eggs, here’s something on a parable by Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. Called “The King and the Maiden,” it’s as close as inside your phone. A certain king takes a journey, a road trip of sorts, because he’s hopelessly in love. He leaves his kingdom and becomes a
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Today’s fun fact is that 39-year-old Alexander Ovechkin can still fire a puck about 100 mph.No wonder he’s about to amass more goals than anyone in NHL history, even Wayne Gretzky, the Brantford son who played hockey with uncommon skill and grace. Today’s other fun fact is that exactly 26 years ago
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Apologies, but today’s offering is on Adolf Hitler. Eighty-six years ago, on March 15, 1939, Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia. The Second World War started soon after when he couldn’t resist bombing Poland. Nobody knew what to do with the forest fire that was the German Führer.
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The fun fact for today, March 1, is that it’s Ron Howard’s birthday. You may know Howard for directing some fine movies. “Apollo 13,” “A Beautiful Mind,” “Frost / Nixon,” are a few that come to mind. Way back, he was Opie from “The Andy Griffith Show.” But for anyone still loving the ‘70s, he’s clean-cut Richie
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My phone recently showed me one of those photo montages called Memories. Exactly five years earlier, on a January day, someone took a photo of me standing with a gaggle of Ugandan kids holding hockey sticks, gear that I’d previously brought overseas. It was just before COVID. The kids are very happy.
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