JIMBORED KICKS SOME ASS IN THE MMA – HOUSTON 2002
Before I leave Texas, on my way into the lands of the forgotten. By that I mean retirement. I want to relate an opinion of something that changed many of my preconceived ideas of sports. Especially, the manly art of…
AT LONG LAST, SOMEONE RECOGNIZED JIMBO RED’s TALENTS – SCOTLAND YEAR 2001
It is sometimes funny, how things have a way of working out. It had now been, just under, 3 years, since we had moved to Scotland. I was fully immersed in this company. However, as life dictates, the human being…
STRANGE THINGS THAT VIKINGS THOUGHT WERE NORMAL – AN OPINION PIECE – YEAR 2001
Over a period of time, in the early 2000’s, I had occasion to travel to Norway many times. None of these trips were for pleasure. In many ways, our life up to that point was a mixture of work and…
THE SUMMER JOB FROM HELL 1967 – 1968
I will kick off the New Year 2022, with a flashback to my time after High School, in the summers of 1968 and 1969. My post today, could be categorized as a “memory”, but I have chosen to consider it…
A BLOGGING MIRACLE HAS HAPPENED, DECEMBER 2021
A blogging miracle has just happened. After one and a half years I have reached some milestones. Every one of which, I believed, unreachable, when I started. The written content of my blog now exceeds 300,000 words. I told you,…
ANOTHER READER POST – IN CASE I LOSE FOCUS – 2021
To start off the New Year I am posting this offering from a loyal reader and faithful friend. This article reminds me of how I found Alberta upon return, after many years of living and working in milder climes. It…
CAN BS BE STACKED ANY HIGHER THAN 6 FEET?
Another milestone in literary drivel is fast approaching and as it nears, its seems more unbelievable. What I thought was a failing mind, and what I was encouraged by others to believe was (a slipping clutch) cannot have been all…
A FAMILY LEAPS INTO THE UNKNOWN 1994 – CANADA
After 16 years of travel around the world in the pursuit of work and adventure. The time had come to return to Canada and try to re-establish some roots. The decision to make this move came at a time, where…
42 YEARS AGO A CANADIAN WILDMAN MEETS AN INCA PRINCESS – an opinion piece
As I write the title for this blog, I am amazed at the number of years ol Bubbaloo and I have been together. It seems surreal and a bit unreal that this much time has passed like a finger snap.…
MY OPINION OF WHERE OUR WORLD IS GOING – AUGUST 2020
Will (Ariel) Durant once said “No great civilization has ever been conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within”. Prophetic, no? Where does it apply today. I guess unless you reside under a rock. You can see an…
