Got an email from a friend the other day, headed “Enough already!” Like so many of us – especially we older folks – she’s sick and tired of being locked down, exasperated with the conflicting information we’ve received, really scared of leaving her home unless it’s absolutely necessary, and furious with the scoffers who put her health in danger with their refusal to wear a mask.
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Roxanne Tellier – Pande-Malaise
Posted in COVID 19, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags ‘think positively’, Bird Box, CandyMan., climate change, COVID 19, DBAWIS, Enough already, Feckless Leader, free publicity., Kanye West, Michael Scrivener, Pande-Malaise, Premier Ford, privilege, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, White House on July 5, 2020 by segariniRoxanne Tellier – Parsing what comes between the Thanks and the Giving
Posted in life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags 'get over it, Archie Bunker, Bangladesh, Black Friday, climate change, DBAWIS, Forbes Richest People List, koalas, Kurds, Mad King, narcissism, North Korea, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, Syria, Thanksgiving, White House, Yemen, Yorkville on December 1, 2019 by segariniAmericans celebrated their Thanksgiving this past week. Many families endured long journeys, traveling across the country, to spend time with the people they love. The lucky ones gathered around tables that groaned with heaps of delicious, fresh, and sometimes even healthy, food.
Roxanne Tellier – A Sunday Pot Luck
Posted in Opinion, politics, Review with tags BC, Canada, cannabis, civil rights, climate change, DBAWIS, edible, First Nations, First Past the Post, Indigenous, Jamal Khashoggi Saudi Arabia, Kinder Morgan, legalization, Marijuana, Native Americans, North Dakota, pipeline, pot, Reefer Madness, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, Supreme Court, THC, United States, Voting on October 14, 2018 by segariniYou ready, Canada?
Legal weed can go on sale at 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 17, 2018. Cue the screaming and yelling from those who have never seen a Reefer Madness poster that didn’t give them a semi-erotic frisson of fear.
Roxanne Tellier – Wild and Wacky Weathering
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Bob Segarini, Boston, climate change, DBAWIS, ecoanxiety, Florida, Global Warming., Karen Thompson Walker, Mar-a-Lago, Mother Nature, New York, Roxanne Tellier, The Age of Miracles, Toronto, Toronto Islands, weather on July 9, 2017 by segariniIn June 2012, Amazon picked The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker as one of the month’s best reads. A combination coming-of-age story and apocalyptic page turner, the novel focused on how people would react to a changed world, where “the Earth’s rotation slows, gradually stretching out days and nights and subtly affecting the planet’s gravity. ”
Roxanne Tellier – Weather or Not We’re Together
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 2017, Australia, Bob Segarini, Canada, climate change, DailyTelegraph, DBAWIS, Global Warming., long johns., Roxanne Tellier, Seasonal Affective Disorder, spring, sunlight, sunscreen, tan lines, Terry Jacks, thermal socks, weather on February 20, 2017 by segariniI don’t want to startle anyone … but there’s been quite a lot of blue in the sky lately, and there’s this big yellowy orange ‘ball’ up there as well …. and it’s been getting kind of warmer, too. Should I worry?