
Parker’s Pen – July 2024
Grocery chains are being clobbered from all sides for the rising costs of their merchandise. No doubt most everything is up in price, but the food is not totally responsible.
Grocery chains are being clobbered from all sides for the rising costs of their merchandise. No doubt most everything is up in price, but the food is not totally responsible.
I really must comment on the city’s new Blue Sky City brand. Perhaps not the best timing, as at time of writing the forecast is more spring snow and we
I love trees – we all love trees. There are people who believe they can communicate with trees, people who believe trees can feel pain. Certainly, a large tree can exude
I well remember Irwin Drugs on the corner of 17th Avenue and 8th Street S.W., way back after we arrived in Calgary, and I was selling advertising for The Albertan
Choreography is such a nice word – looks good and it rolls off the tongue. I don’t pretend to be a lover of ballet, but its meaning in suggesting the
I’ve often commented that the older you get, the louder the music. But do I detect a raising of the noise levels in TV sports? I suspect that engineers increase
I admit to being a man who can bear a grudge. Despite events like George Brookman’s Breakfast on the Peace Bridge fundraiser, I’ve yet to set foot on it. I
I am really fed up with decision makers – whoever they may be – who want to protect us all from things that just might upset our day. Especially last
Some new developments take a long time to percolate, but the 10 years Dick Haskayne had to wait to see the opening of the regional park that he had donated
There are a number of words that one rarely hears or reads anymore. Ones that I would like to resurrect – like henceforth, niggardly, daft and kerfuffle. Codswallop is a