In 1965, Canada was well on its way to making inter-continental travel from sea-to-sea-to-sea a lot more enticing and convenient. The Trans-Canada Highway had linked the otherwise awkward and barely passable sections of Lake Superior in Ontario and the Rocky Mountains between Alberta and British Columbia. And so, my grandparents decided to take a little trek out of province to see that the world didn’t end in Port Arthur, Ontario (merely life as we know it).
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GRAN’S CANADA HIGHWAY – EPISODE 3: LOADED TO BEAR by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in Family, life, Opinion, Review with tags Alberta, British Columbia, Buick Invicta, chuck wagon, DBAWIS, Don Valley Parkway, Don't Believe a Word I Say, driving, GPS, Highway 12, Highway 400, Highway 401, Highway 48, Hogtown, Lake Superior, Luggage, Mapquest, Markham, Montreal, Ontario, Ottawa, Port Arthur, road map, Rocky Mountains, Segarini Jaimie Vernon, Toronto, Trans-Canada Highway, Vernons on July 13, 2020 by segariniRoxanne Tellier – Thinking About Thinking
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Bob Segarini, British Columbia, bully pulpit, DBAWIS, electrically powered vehicles, Facebook, Fairness Doctrine, Fake News, FCC, Fox News, Idiocracy, Mayflower Doctrine, McDonalds, Roxanne Tellier, Rupert Murdoch, Russia, Social Media, Thinking about Thinking on October 22, 2017 by segarini
Ain’t I a wonder, and ain’t you a wonder too!
Or so we’ve been led to believe, by all of our ‘likes’ and ‘loves’ on social media, which is where we go to show off our funny, pretty, and intelligent sides. It’s where we go to get our ‘strokes’ of approval, to find out who’s doing what, and it’s where some of us go to air our opinions and beliefs, and to challenge the opinions and beliefs of others.
Roxanne Tellier – Everything is Everywhere
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Amadeus' Restaurant, Anh Phung & Alan Mackie, Bertie & The Gents, Bob Segarini, Brian Dickinson, British Columbia, Carl Bray, Celine Peterson, Danny Marks, DBAWIS, Don Thompson, Donne Roberts, El Gordo's Backyard, El Mocambo, Eric St-Laurent, Everything is Everywhere, Genevieve Marentette, Greg Godovitz, Handlebar, Hotbox Cafe, Joanne Smale, Joe Sealy, John Tory, Kensington Market Jazz Festival, Lola, Lyric Theatre, Manfred Koch, Mark Eisenman, Molly Johnson, Prohibition, Rays of Hope, Richard Flohill, Rick Donaldson & The Jazz Cats with Jim Heineman, Robi Botos, Roxanne Tellier, Selcuk Suna Trio featuring DIA, September, Sidewalk Crusaders Street March, Sina Bathaie, Toronto Centre for the Arts, Yamaha Grand Piano Room in Tom's Place on September 18, 2017 by segarini
Since I have a fear of flying, and a flight to B.C. tomorrow morning, I’ve been in a constant state of panic for the last week or so. When I finally fall into a restless sleep, I have non-stop nightmares of arriving at the wrong terminal, without a ticket or some vital bit of identification, and wearing all the wrong clothes, if I’m wearing clothes at all. Even when there’s no reason to panic – and I can always find a reason to panic – I’m in a simmering pre-panic mode. My house looks like an exploded suitcase. Everything is everywhere.
Roxanne Tellier … Of Time and Tides
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags acceptance, aging, anger, aquafit, Barbette Kensington, bargaining, Bob Segarini, British Columbia, DBAWIS, denial, Depression, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Golden Years, Health, Roxanne Tellier, senescence, stages of grief on September 10, 2017 by segarini
Next week, I’ll be heading to British Columbia to visit my daughter, granddaughters, family and friends. My husband gifted me the fare; he knows I’ve been aching to see the girls. I’ll be there for my daughter’s birthday, and to reacquaint myself with my granddaughters, who are teetering on the brink of their teenage years, at ages 11 and 13. My daughter will have her hands full for the next decade with these two little minxes.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 