Writing in today’s New York Times e-letter Vanessa Friedman gets to the heart of what has been for me, a nagging question. Why does Kamala Harris always appear in pantsuits? Why is Tim Walz suited in rather uninteresting somewhat old-guy clothing? (He is only one year older than Harris but looks older.) In this presidential... Continue Reading →
Campaign life 73 days out
More memes. They speak for themselves. And Socrates enters the fray, and rightly so. Was he a loser? Not. Our banner image today references Robert Kennedy Jr's campaign abandonment and defection to the Trump Camp. Weird just got weirder. AND NOW, some musical encouragement and entertainment. If the youth vote gets out (GOTV) things could... Continue Reading →
The meme dam is about to burst wide open
Thought I should get some images out prior to the Harris speech tonight in Chicago. After that chat, the meme scene will explode. Trust me.
Pooch Presidential Politics
Politically neutral Juno charges into the 2024 US Presidential/Vice Presidential election Almost five-year-old Labradoodle, Juno, blogs on politics, pooches, and personalities from her lovely condo home in Summerland BC that she shares with her MaPaw, kathie, and PaPaw, Ken. I just don’t get it. Here in our little town of Summerland we have struggled to... Continue Reading →
Meaningful Memes
Your team at TakeNote.ca continues to search the online world for more creative response from digital content creators who follow the 2024 US Presidential race. No guesses on outcome yet but my, oh my, the Harris/Walz momentum continues. What is curious to me is how a response to the GOP/Trump camp with sometimes as little... Continue Reading →
The Case of the Disappearing Salad — A Summer-Land Mystery
It was a beautiful kitchen creation; a summer salad; a mix of spinach, chicken, avocado, strawberries, almonds, and cucumber topped off with a poppy seed dressing. And it’s gone . . . On a warm, breezy, summer evening in 2024 Ken and Kathie Gray drove to Sunoka Beach Park, a provincial park just outside the... Continue Reading →
This is Juno’s world — We just live in it
My son sent the above photograph with caption to Kathie and me while we vacationed in Nova Scotia recently. He was caring for our house and for Juno in our absence. He always enjoys Juno’s company and looks forward to the day when he can have his own dog. That day will come, but not... Continue Reading →
Walzing Kamala
The US presidential race game board gains another chess piece in Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, a sort of Midwestern America all round good guy, an army and national guard man, dog and cat lover, former member though now critic of the NRA, almost identical in age to Ms. Harris though looking at them you... Continue Reading →
From Rant to Rave from Birth to Grave – The past, present, and future of the shopping cart
Photo: Goldman with one of his carts in 1960 In a previous post I complained about people who did not return their grocery carts to the storage area once they had placed their groceries in their car in the supermarket parking lot. I raised serious questions about safety, employment practices, sustainable space, community standards including... Continue Reading →
And the envelope please – Conversation with characters
IMAGE: etsy.com Many blogs available on this site feature “letters” in different contexts. I have however never commented on envelopes, until now. The following shared from Inspire Hub Facebook “Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: “Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you... Continue Reading →