“You can’t go home again.”
That phrase comes from a famous 1940 novel You Can’t Go Home Again, by Thomas Wolfe. It basically means that you can never fully relive your childhood and recapture...
Did you know that all cars sold in the province of Quebec come off the assembly line with a thinner coat of paint than cars sold elsewhere in the country?
I can’t actually prove...
A story emerged from a Grand Prairie, Alberta courtroom recently that was so ridiculous that one must wonder how something like this would make it to court in the first place.
Two young boys,...
We can now edit a baby’s genes before birth to counter life-threatening conditions like Huntington’s disease and cystic fibrosis, so can someone please tell me why we still have to suffer the indignity of the Johnny shirt...
Spend about 60 years with someone and some things are bound to rub off.
I was at work the other day and a colleague left me to retrieve something from the backroom. She had...
It was my first taste of live music that wasn’t played on a church organ, and I couldn’t have been more captivated had John Lennon himself entered our Grade 3 classroom and started playing the opening riff...
Did she really just ask me if I remember rotary dial phones?
It’s 2015, and I’m approaching my 50th birthday. My ad sales job at The Chronicle Herald has me sharing office space with...
By Dave MacNeil
It was a night I won’t remember forever.
Thanks to the Milano Cortina Olympics, there will be no Hockey Night in Canada this Saturday. But if there was,...
How often have you attempted to put on a t-shirt in a dark bedroom, only to find you’ve put it on backwards?
If you’re like me, your success rate isn’t very good. I haven’t...
AP Photo/Chris O'Meara. NASA's Artemis II moon rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-B, April 1, 2026, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Although it was four months before my...