Digging into Snow Shoveling
Old Harold thinks a lot can be told about a person by how they shovel snow. As a kid one year I noticed an elderly couple moved into a house about halfway to school. After the first snow fall, while…
Tap Tap Tap… It’s Your Old Buddy Father Time
Memories of our youthful abilities, and faith that we can perform the same can keep us staring straight down the axis of time as though it has no dimension. Periodically though, Father time swings his axis for a glimpse of…
Visit Lacombe, WTF?
Lacombe is a great place at stop for all seasons, especially ski season or summer holidays when going or coming back from the mountains and want to feast of fast or real food. In the non-snow season, you can trail…
That 70’s Dickens Edition
I guess my experience in Red Deer Public School System in the 70’s wasn’t too different from many kids in Alberta. We walked to school, no buses and home for lunch every day. When it got cold you were bundled…
Disorderly Eating
Old Harold is afflicted with disorderly eating. Eating too much of the wrong stuff has had me hovering between overweight and obese for most of my adult life. Paralleling this, my subcutaneous fat has gradually gone on holiday leaving my…
Manspreading Explained
I find myself, as director of the Moople Institute for Advanced Learning, having to provide the following public (or pubic) service information. There as been a lot of "information" on the topic of Manspreading and much of it has been…
Talent show addiction
Old Harold is a talent show addict. For the past number of years it’s been to The Voice, and before that American Idol. During the season, on Monday and Tuesday nights I tune into The Voice first for the blinds…
The Clutter Spectrum
Where are you on the clutter spectrum? Can you stand living in your own filth and pestilence, or does everything have to be spick and span with everything in its own place? Old Harold is somewhere in the middle, maybe…
How the west was won
– WARNING – bias small town political commentary Well friends, after a couple months of intensive analysis, I’ve determined how the Liberals defeated the Conservatives in the last federal election. They got more seats. How did they get more seats…
How to become an influencer
I’m just kidding. Old Harold does not know how to become an influencer. I guess to be an influencer, you have to influence someone to think or act in a way that you want or don’t want them to. In…