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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...
Ron Finnigan
Apr 20, 20201 min read
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...
Ron Finnigan
Aug 23, 20191 min read
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...
Ron Finnigan
Aug 9, 20191 min read
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...
Ron Finnigan
Jul 6, 20193 min read
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...
Ron Finnigan
May 4, 20195 min read
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...
Ron Finnigan
Jun 9, 20189 min read
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...
Ron Finnigan
Feb 19, 201710 min read
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,...
Ron Finnigan
Dec 28, 201611 min read
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...
Ron Finnigan
Oct 1, 20164 min read
Interviewing Paul
"Interviewing Paul" was a follow up blog to "The Fire-Breathing Undergraduate". This blog was originally published in October 2015. When...
Ron Finnigan
Oct 18, 20153 min read
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...
Ron Finnigan
Oct 17, 20155 min read
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...
Ron Finnigan
Oct 14, 20153 min read
University Then and Now
This article was originally published in September 2015 as a blog on the Carleton University Communications Undergraduate Student...
Ron Finnigan
Sep 2, 20155 min read
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...
Ron Finnigan
Dec 25, 20111 min read
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...
Ron Finnigan
Aug 1, 20114 min read
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...
Ron Finnigan
Jul 15, 20113 min read
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,...
Ron Finnigan
Jan 7, 20073 min read
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