Ron Finnigan
Christmas card: "find a nice lady..."
During this pandemic, I decided to complete a project I've put on hold for ages. I have thousands of personal photographs and greeting...
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Ron Finnigan
- Aug 23, 2019
- 1 min
Théâtre de l'île - pictures
On Friday, August 23rd, our excursion bus took us to the Théâtre de l'île to see "Les Grandes Chaleurs", a comedy about the relationship...
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Ron Finnigan
- Aug 9, 2019
- 1 min
Little Red Wagon Winery
This is a blog about our recent visit to the Little Red Wagon Winery (Le Vignoble Petit Chariot Rouge) in Shawville Quebec. For now, I'm...
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Ron Finnigan
- Jul 6, 2019
- 3 min
Not really a cat person (postcard story*)
I’m not really a cat person. Seriously. I’m a dog person and don’t care much for cats. Bernadette was all cats. She had cats on...
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Ron Finnigan
- May 4, 2019
- 5 min
Welcome to Gay Paris
In the late Summer of 1978, I was invited to the European Managers Annual Meeting in Paris France. I was the youngest member of a...
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Ron Finnigan
- Jun 9, 2018
- 9 min
DON'T PANIC!
The Layman’s Guide to a post-Brexit Britain is the World’s most popular book, after The Bible. It has sold twice as many copies as the...
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Ron Finnigan
- Feb 19, 2017
- 10 min
BIOBED 10.2
My sleeping was up to 23 hours a day now. They had promised my new biobed would provide me with continuous, 24-hours per-day sleep, but...
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Ron Finnigan
- Dec 28, 2016
- 11 min
Here Comes the Sun (sequel to Ray Bradbury’s “All in a Summer’s Day”)
Introduction: All in a Summer’s Day is a short story written by Ray Bradbury in 1954. It has been adapted into a short 30 minute film,...
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Ron Finnigan
- Oct 1, 2016
- 4 min
How to Stop Bullies
Shame. That’s the only way. I’m not speaking as a bullying expert. I’m speaking as a victim. This is what worked for me in Grade 7 in...
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Ron Finnigan
- Oct 18, 2015
- 3 min
Interviewing Paul
"Interviewing Paul" was a follow up blog to "The Fire-Breathing Undergraduate". This blog was originally published in October 2015. When...
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Ron Finnigan
- Oct 17, 2015
- 5 min
The Fire-Breathing Undergraduate
This is one of my favorite blog postings originally published in October 2015. One of this year’s First Year Undergraduates is a...
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Ron Finnigan
- Oct 14, 2015
- 3 min
Being an Undergraduate and a Senior
The following blog was originally published one year ago on on Carleton University's Learning Log website (http://learninglog.carleton.c...
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Ron Finnigan
- Sep 2, 2015
- 5 min
University Then and Now
This article was originally published in September 2015 as a blog on the Carleton University Communications Undergraduate Student...
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Ron Finnigan
- Dec 25, 2011
- 1 min
My First Grey Hair (by my niece)
One of my Christmas presents today was this wonderful poem by my niece, Olivia: My First Grey Hair ------------------ Today I found my...
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Ron Finnigan
- Aug 1, 2011
- 4 min
Harry's Birthday
Harry dreaded birthdays. His three, very competitive kids would always try to outdo each other every year first with the card they gave...
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Ron Finnigan
- Jul 15, 2011
- 3 min
The Penny
Yesterday was my 60th birthday, and I was fortunate enough to spend it with all my family. They held a big fancy party with all the...
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Ron Finnigan
- Jan 7, 2007
- 3 min
Corncob Mike
Things are usually pretty quite on my late evening shift as I monitor the highly automated system that controls the broadcast of news,...
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