Author Archives: Robert Hubbard

Many years ago, I Iistened to the U.S.’ National Public Radio news programs each day while driving home from work. It has now been quite some time that I haven’t had NPR on my radio set, haven’t listened. I changed residence and have CBC Radio 2 on a worn and stuck-in button these last twentyContinue reading “January 11, 2021”

Sunshine – blue skies. Our long greyness has dissipated. That is a nice word, dissipated. It applies to fog, to misspending youth and vigor, to melancholy, to a circle of friends… There are so many ways to use such a lovely little word. I like words that have a lot of applications. In the caseContinue reading “January 10, 2021”

Grey day number 347? Ya. I never realized that just being 45 minutes closer to the lake would change my skies. Wow. With the weather difference and the giant cannery chimney, they should call this ‘Greystack Tomatoe’ not Leamington. Maybe, in a nod to the recent development of cannabis greenhouses, they could call our townContinue reading “January 8, 2021”

Last week, I watched, witnessed several murders, horrific accidents, cars flying in the air, bombs going off, a rape or two, a major financial crime, a bizarre political plot and people just behaving badly. Every day, another dead person, another investigation. I sat on the jury in a dozen kangaroo courts as the inaccurate orContinue reading “January 5, 2021”

There are things I wonder about, don’t know about but don’t get concerned enough about. I don’t do the necessary research. I satisfy myself with my own idea and go on to the next item on my daily list. Today, I wondered about the trees again. They are high on my curiousity agenda. They figureContinue reading “January 3, 2021”

What would the subject of a New Year’s Day blog be? Should I fill the blank space before me with platitudes? Those platitudes being dusted, polished and recycled from last year and the previous? Should I speak to the moment at all? This day is, after all, only a day in the life. There haveContinue reading “January 1, 2021”

Just made it! Whew! We are now at a few days past the shortest day of the year, the longest night (Lat. 42 Lon. -82.). That statement could also be made in a metaphorical sense. With Trump near the end of his mind-numbing reign as a foreground figure, the days are growing longer and weContinue reading “December 30, 2020”

December 29, 2020 I watched birds for a while this morning. There was a thin film of ice on the marina’s stilled, environmentally protected water and several gulls huddled out of a light wind there. They weren’t sitting on the dock, warming themselves in the bright sun? What odd creatures they are. Skinny legs, puffedContinue reading

A Great Start For a Monday Oh, the days, the long and fruitful days, (when butchered prose gets caught, in my throat sideways)… haha. It is with sub? human effort that the keyboard resounds of clicking and scratching noises. I have to force my fingers across the little plastic pieces that are physically connected toContinue reading “December 28, 2020”