A friend phoned last week to ask if I had any more copies of apart, the new pandemic anthology put out by the Saskatchewan Writer’s Guild and edited by Courtney-Bates Hardy and Dave Margoshes.

A sign at a gas station listed gas prices as: Regular Unleaded: Arm, Plus Unleaded: Leg; Super Unleaded: Both.

We all get by now that living with COVID-19 will likely mean living with occasional waves and spikes. We all likely get that means that just can’t shutdown the entire economy.

That struggle of Premier Scott Moe and his Saskatchewan Party government with COVID-19 goes well beyond tough outcomes in this fourth wave.

“I hate to say it, but I haven’t laughed that hard in ages,” admitted one of the local ranchers, standing in line at the luncheon table. We were at a funeral reception.

“History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.” - Sydney J. Harris, an American journalist who lived from 1917 - 1986.

It wasn’t so much the rah-rah nature of Premier Scott Moe’s State-of-Province before the Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce.

Last year, in the depths of my isolation, I got an email from Tammy Willman at The Grand Coteau in Shaunavon, wondering if I might want to enter anything in the holiday art show.

A WWII veteran was speaking to students. A student asked if he was married. He said he was, and asked why she asked.

As we approach Remembrance Day, I’d like to pay tribute to the veteran members of The War Amps.

I am not a reporter. I am not a journalist. I would consider myself to be an ordinary citizen. Here are my obervations.

While we all want COVID-19 to be over, it’s likely safe to say no in Saskatchewan wants it to be over more than Premier Scott Moe.

I recently received a phone call from an old school friend. We’d lost touch. We went to art school together and were housemates.

How many supply chain planners does it take to change a light bulb? None. The light bulbs are late and not shipping.

One of the two most successful teams in Major League Baseball this season will have a longer winter than they may have been expecting.

Saskatchewan saw 58 October COVID-19 deaths before the halfway point of the month.

“We can never tell anyone about this place,” I say to my friend as we stand in awe under the hill that from far away looked like a mountain.

I found this little nugget funny ... Q: How do you know China has free speech? A: No one says otherwise.

A couple of ago years I drove from Saskatchewan to BC to pick up my sister and take her back to Val Marie for a week of hiking Grasslands National Park for her birthday present.

In one way, the National Hockey League returns to normal this season, with divisions organized by geography rather than the all-Canadian division fans saw last year when Covid-19 dictated emergency policy revisions.