Category Archives: Odds and Ends

Celebrating winter, snow, and the Canadian outlook that sees us through it!

Posted on January 13, 2022 by Jane Fritz

Winter has arrived in eastern Canada. It took a while to really make its presence known, to make it abundantly clear that, yes, it was here and it was planning to stay. Western Canada, you definitely got an early start … Continue reading →

Posted in History and Politics, Odds and Ends | Tagged Canada, Clark W, humor, humour, snow, Up Here In Canada, winter | 26 Comments

Today is for Introverts. Finally.

Posted on January 4, 2022 by Jane Fritz

This was the header of a promo email I received the other day: ‘Today is for Introverts. Finally.’ As the member of a family that includes many proud introverts (including me), I couldn’t help but be intrigued. It turns out … Continue reading →

Posted in History and Politics, Life stories, Odds and Ends | Tagged philosophy, Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, psychology, Albert Einstein, Gandhi, introverts, World Introvert Day, famous introverts, Mandela, Charles Darwin, Bill Gates | 50 Comments

Wow, the knives are out for New Year’s resolutions!

Posted on January 1, 2022 by Jane Fritz

In the last few days leading up to New Year’s Eve, the blogosphere has been filled with people sharing their resolutions for the coming year, and also several who proclaimed that they just didn’t feel they could bring themselves to … Continue reading →

Posted in Odds and Ends | 34 Comments

Yearend review: just who the heck reads blog posts anyway, and what do they really like?!

Posted on December 30, 2021 by Jane Fritz

Here we are in that strangest of weeks, when even the news slows down … well sort of. COVID doesn’t seem to know about the traditional slowdown between Christmas and New Year’s, but we’ll ignore that for the moment. It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Just wondering, Odds and Ends, Writing | Tagged blog stats, blogging, blogosphere, maps, top 10 posts of 2021 | 20 Comments

Peace on Earth, goodwill toward men 2.0

Posted on December 24, 2021 by Jane Fritz

A post I had forgotten about has started turning up in my daily blog “hits” column, a 3-year old post entitled Peace on Earth, goodwill toward men: wouldn’t that be nice! Three full years ago. Long before the January 6 … Continue reading →

Posted in History and Politics, Just wondering, Odds and Ends | Tagged Christmas, COVID, despair, goodwill, hope, joy, kindness, light, loneliness, love, peace, smiles | 20 Comments

Tough COVID questions at the Pearly Gates

Posted on December 22, 2021 by Jane Fritz

I was going to write a post about the importance of kindness this COVID Christmas 2.0 – perhaps the most valuable gift we can give, especially during such trying times – but that will have to wait a few days. … Continue reading →

Posted in Odds and Ends | Tagged COVID, food for thought, God, Pearly Gates, responsibility to others, responsibility to yourself, science, St. Peter, vaccines | 34 Comments

What Made Me Laugh This Week: Dec 19th

Posted on December 19, 2021 by Jane Fritz

Originally posted on Surprised By Joy:
I was thumbing through the humor cards I inherited from my dad and found this card labeled Thoughts for Pondering: Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. Stupidity got us into this mess –…

Posted in Odds and Ends | Tagged deep thoughts, food for thought, humor, humour | 23 Comments

How to retain – or regain – a sense of community during a pandemic

Posted on December 6, 2021 by Jane Fritz

In the past few weeks I’ve heard some distressing comments from former colleagues, younger colleagues who have been working through the strains and constraints of COVID. The COVID work world, complete with rapidly switching to Zoom, teaching by Zoom, having … Continue reading →