More Adventures with a Capital A
Author’s Note: I introduced Edith and Finn, the young French Bulldog and Labrador with my first children’s book “Edith and Finn: Adventures with a Capital A’. And then along came Frankie, a beautiful black Labradane. She joined in with Edith and Winnie as though they’d known each other all their lives, which given that they were all puppies had not been very long.
Adventures with a Capital A
In real life, Edith and Finn were two young puppies and they inspired me to write children’s books. My first is called: ‘Edith and Finn Adventures with a Capital A’ and this is an excerpt. The books ‘Edith and Finn Adventures with a Capital A’ and ‘Edith and Frankie More Adventures with a Capital A’ are a great read for children between 7 – 12 years of age. They are available through any bookstore or online at Amazon.ca etc by title or author name, Tony Peyton.
But I Am Upset!
It took me a moment to absorb the absurdity of it all. If I was to understand the Homesense clerk correctly, we were to go online and try to find the specific lock for that cabinet which as it turns out had been made in India. What were the chances!? Alternatively, one imagines she thought we might get in our car and go from hardware store to hardware store until we located an equivalent lock. For which we were to receive a $10 discount. The mind reels at the possibilities.
Happy 110th Bumpy
My granddaughter Rowe is just eighteen months old and she calls me ‘Bumpy’. It’s the best! It makes me feel younger, more lighthearted every time she says it. And that’s a good thing because the fact is I’m barreling down a one way track which if I’m to believe the pessimists among us, has a dead end. What a drag. I’ve never been happier bad knees, relentless peeing and general grumpiness notwithstanding. Never been happier. And now! NOW I’m supposed to be good with it all ending?! I don’t think so.
When Good Girls Revolted
A young Canadian woman in this century is free and empowered in ways that her predecessors could only ever dream of. So here’s the thing, if you don’t know where that came from, how hard it was to achieve, what sacrifices needed to be made you may take it all for granted.
But here’s another thing: If you don’t protect it, value it and guard it, fight for it the way others before you did, we will take it back!
Old Men Are The Best
Here’s the thing: OLD men are great. We know full well what is coming our way and for the most part we don’t flinch, using humour among other things to fend off the Horrible Reality. We are often times given a bad rap described in the most horrible ways generally by people who don’t have a clue what it is to be OLD. They will one day of course. If they are lucky.
Oh The Humanity!
So the day I take my advice from Elon Musk is the day I … oh never mind. In any event a recent comment by Musk caught my attention. He warned in rather apocalyptic tones that artificial intelligence is the greatest threat to humanity that we have ever faced. Good Lord man, in a world of hyperbole that takes the cake.
Stay Awake!
Author’s Note: So I have added the audio file for ‘Stay Awake’ and I feel as though I should apologize to Frank’s wife, who you will hear from shortly. Somehow I have made her sound as though she smokes non-stop, drinks whisky and has whiskers on her throat. That was not my intention, I’m sure her voice is perfectly pleasant. I think I’m projecting.
‘Oh My Word. Then what happened?’
Now I have no idea how Perfectly Sensible Tony lost this debate to Typically Ridiculous Tony, but he did. “And out of the house I went car keys in one hand, the forefinger on my right hand tucked into a belt loop at the waist of my pants. I assured myself that would be sufficient.”
My Favourite Story of the Year
As I put the car in ‘park’ and opened my door Bad Tony was gleeful.
“That’s right Tony. I am so proud of you. Go on give it to the old bugger. Who does he think he’s playing with.!”
I walked behind my car and locked eyes with the driver of the Lincoln. He was old. Which is one of the more ironic things I have ever written because I am old as well. So old. Good Tony was aghast.