Monday Morning Musings
Posted on April 7, 2014 under Monday Morning Musings with no comments yet
Masters Week
It’s my favorite sports event to watch on television. If you are a golfer, or a former golfer ( like me ), there’s nothing like watching The Masters golf tournament. I will go out on a limb: my two choices for a winner are Adam Scott ( in the picture above ) or Matt Kuchar.
I have great news. Bernice MacDonald, photographer extraordinaire, has been added to the program for the fundraiser on the 24th. She will be showing some of her amazing photos up on the big screen. And one lucky person will receive one of her photos. You will be able to choose the one you want. There will be other door prizes as well.
Five of us gathered at the Prissy Pig on Saturday and swapped stories for an hour. It was a great time. Everybody has so many stories to share. We all agreed on the importance of writing some of this down for posterity. It seems that everything is so fast and fleeting these days. We are blitzed with snippets of information that pass across our screens and are relegated to “trash.” I am planning to have another get together at the end of the month.
Speaking of stories, I have two that are fresh off the press. The first one is true. Let me clarify. The circumstances surrounding the story are true. I still don’t know how the story “officially” ended so I concocted my own. A couple travelling home from Calgary for a family emergency, arrived at the airport in Halifax. The instructions were to pick up a vehicle that had been left in the parking garage with the keys under the gas cap. They managed to do this and travelled to the family home in Pictou county. One small problem. They took the wrong vehicle! Seriously. The story is called “Taken For a Ride.”
Do you have any idea what a $1200 phone bill in 1976 would equate to today? Apply an annual inflation rate of 3% over 38 years. I will tell you the answer but you’ll have to read the story “ Wrong Number” to find out. When I started my teaching career in the fall of 1976 in the Peace River country of Alberta, I had a two bedroom apartment. For the first month, five other guys lived with me. Two of them had serious relationships with women back east. There was no Skype, texting or e-mail back then. The phone was it. Find out what happened when the first phone bill arrived.
Here’s a new fundraising idea. You host a party at your house. I will be the guest. I will bring some stories and my guitar. You collect a donation from every person who shows up. We donate the money to the Hot Meal program. If anyone is game to try it, let me know.
Easter is fast approaching and if you’re looking for gift ideas, I have two: you could buy tickets for the fundraiser or you could get a personally autographed copy of my book to give to a friend or relative.
I submitted 54 stories to my book editor on the weekend so we are officially off and running with book #2.
Have a great week.
P.S. Take a look at this Youtube video by JP Cormier and consider how lucky you are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq0X0bwMprQ#t=151
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