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of you folks already know this for reasons which will be made clear momentarily but for the few remaining among you we found the nest and we re moving in over the next few weeks my life our lives are going to be considerably different than they ve been hilary and i are both leaving homes in which we ve invested the majority of our lives where the bulk of our families and friends live neither of us knows anyone where we re going except for our real estate agent it s a new path in a new place and likely the last home in our lives aside from learning where the walleye trout muskie pike bass whitefish and crappie are lurking at various times of the year i m going to be busy learning a lifestyle more closely aligned with the rhythms of mother nature i ll be watching the sky and waters and checking wind direction and cloud movements on a near hourly basis instead of whenever i m heading out we ll be living out i m excited and a bit trepidatious it s a big change for both of us and for our children but i m quite sure our new path holds surprises wonders and uh oh moments galore you ll see pictures from me from time to time and regularly from hilary if you wisely hook up to her blog but i m not certain there ll be much more in the way of baron it all s one way to catch up on my and other interesting folks happenings would be to join us at the online version of the nest it s a small eclectic and interesting little community and you dasn t hasta pay a cent i try to check in there daily though appearances may be a tad scanty whilst we re moving as of this writing we haven t lined up an internet provider yet but we know for sure it won t be the cable based variety we re used to i mentioned hilary s blog above and for those of you who have not yet seen the photos here s a link to a previous blog of hers wherein she posted some shots of our soon to be home thanks to those of you who ve been reading my drivel for years most especially to those of you who also bought my book and still read the ensuing drivel i question your taste but admire the heck out of your moxie and i am and will be eternally grateful for the kind words you ve tossed my way over the years thanks much posted by frank baron at 12 14 am 13 comments wednesday may 15 2013 1971 rip to a journalism giant 247 1971 was the most memorable year of my life i d taken a year off after high school graduation to make some money and travel spent several months hitchhiking around europe celebrated my 20th birthday sitting on a cold rainy sandflea infested beach in western scotland shaking with fever and trying to stay dry while holding a pathetic little piece of plastic over my head it was a time of meeting people from around the world visiting historic sites and generally expanding my horizons in the fall of that year i started my first year of university in london ontario in order to study journalism also in the fall of that year the storied newspaper the toronto telegram folded as a media junkie this was huge news delivering the tely was my first job as an 11 year old and i mourned its passing i hated the thought of the toronto area being stuck with the fat cat newspaper the star luckily from the ashes of the tely sprung a feisty tabloid the toronto sun within 48 hours of the last tely hitting the street the first issue of the sun did likewise it was the brain child of doug creighton don hunt and editor in chief peter worthington i had two journalistic heroes in those days one was the great hunter s thompson the man who put gonzo into journalism shattering the stereotype of the blandly objective reporter the other was peter worthington i ll not detail his career i ll let him do it below but he did it all saw it all and reported it all he was courageous joining the canadian navy at 17 to take part in wwii as an officer he lead troops in the north korean conflict later as a reporter he filed stories from most war zones around the world when lee harvey oswald was shot by jack ruby peter was there just feet away his relationship with the sun was stormy he probably quit or was fired umpteen times and returned to work the following day eventually he left the paper only to return as a contributing writer some years later i loved the columns he wrote about his life long love affair with jack russell terriers having bonded with my own jrt the past half dozen years i understand better his fascination with them they re much like worthington himself curious intelligent and amazingly stubborn well you know where this is going peter worthington died monday night at the age of 86 it s difficult to be sad about a person living a long full life and then passing quietly but i am sad i ll miss his wry humour and wisdom today 1971 seems like a very long time ago leave it to worthington to write his own obituary i hope you ll take the time to check it out it s a heckuva lot more interesting than what i wrote posted by frank baron at 3 37 pm 10 comments monday april 15 2013 fundamentalism maturity a cute puppy 246 as many of you know i grew up in a staunchly catholic home and was educated in the catholic school system i remember in grade 1 we had a little primer with questions and answers about the faith the very first q and a was q who made you a god made me i drifted away from the church when i was about 15 but some indoctrination sticks forever like that first question in my grade 1 religion book it s popped into my head a few times lately because i ve been involved in some online arguments with fundamentalist christians a topic that continuously burns their behinds is homosexuality gay marriage they claim it s an abomination because their bible says so doesn t seem to matter it also says a bunch of other things are abominations like eating shellfish sharing a bed with a menstruating woman or offering an imperfect animal to sacrifice to god i mean what animal is perfect they can overlook some abominable behaviour i guess but not man to man or woman to woman loving they are by the way absolutely incapable of noting the hypocrisy involved when it comes to biblical cherry picking but i shouldn t tar them all with the same brush the more enlightened among fundamentalists will allow that it s okay to be gay just as long as their naughty bits don t press against or into each other they graciously allow gays to be who they are as long as they don t actually act on it so i ask them why did god make homosexuals if he s really not that fond of what they do and the answer of course is that god did no such thing he made everyone hetero but darned if some of the miscreants didn t choose to be gay which of course earns them a one way ticket to hellsville now i don t give a flying fig newton whether a person believes in a god gods nothing or a cosmic muffin as long as their beliefs aren t inflicted on others and by far the majority of christians i know are fine decent people who believe in living and letting live but fundamentalists are another kettle of fish they want to turn the clock back to the good old days around 113 ad and actively work to elect politicians who reflect their antediluvian views which reminds me the big flood and noah s ark and saving all the animals never happened couldn t have happened could not have happened i really don t care that many most fundamentalists are young earth creationists yecs who ignore science and think the world is 6 000 years old and that noah had baby dinosaurs on board and evolution is a myth but the garden of eden is not but i do care that they spread their ignorance bigotry and mean spiritedness whenever and wherever possible and i will continue to wage verbal war on them had a couple of thoughts actually definitions of maturity lately wrote them down the first was originally a definition of what i thought a real man was and it went like this a real man is one who does what needs doing without complaint or expectation of reward i was pretty happy with that i mean it s fridge magnet material upon pondering further i realized that it could certainly apply to either gender so i revised it to a mature person is one who etc and then even though i d had the above thought only a few weeks before i was beset by a second one two thoughts about maturity in a matter of months if i m not careful i ll become a pundit anyway here s the second true maturity arrives the day we realize we can no longer fool ourselves uh huh no sucking in the gut in front of the mirror no pretending your hair is turning platinum blond instead of gray that admiring look from the cute cashier it was really pity gonna wrap this one up with a picture of a cute puppy everybody loves pictures of cute puppies heh heh posted by frank baron at 4 00 pm 29 comments friday december 14 2012 an open letter to america hello my southern brother i bring greetings and a message that was the greeting this is the message it s time to grow up growing up means looking around and seeing what is really true what is really true is your society is fecked and all the john waynes in the world cain t hardly fix it how many of your children do you need to see killed by your own people s hands with the guns you make so readily available before you begin to suspect that maybe just maybe your almighty worship of the 2nd amendment is a bit well so 19th century i sincerely and deeply apologize for the previous sentence parse it at your risk it s 2012 most of the developed world s citizens handle gun ownership sensibly only one of them still considers it a divine right of the only god that matters that would be you usa you who continue to kill your children in your schools or movie goers in their theatres or wherever a crowd and future fleeting internet tv glory abides your gun worshipping culture is killing your children at a rate that appals the rest of the world yet here and there i see and hear pockets of americans whispering the heresy of gasp gun control they are quickly and vociferously drowned out by the outraged gun worshippers and their well funded pr machine they even somehow manage to spin their voodoo to suggest that only gun totin real americans are favoured by jesus christ all mighty his own self and that pencil necked liberal pansies are first in line for eternal fiery torment so help ya god and so it goes on and on the heartbreak of torn apart families the burials of small children who had no understandable earthly reason to be dead so soon communities teachers parents everywhere living with a new nightmare it s very wrong and i think making guns especially handguns and assault weapons more difficult to buy would go a long way towards stopping horrors like that of dec 14th 2012 in newtown connecticut at least talk about it nobody is taking guns away just talk about making them a little tougher to get and their owner vetted more closely in canada if you want to buy a gun you need to get a firearms acquisition certificate in order to get said certificate you need to pass a police check and a firearms safety course then and only then can you purchase a gun and ammunition if you feel the need to carry a handgun because of your business or the fact you belong to a gun club you apply for a permit to buy and carry one as far as i know this may require a deeper background check and or more training with a weapon before the handgun permit is issued if taking one more course or having to purchase one more permit or having to wait two more weeks means one more whacko flips out before getting his hands on a piece all of society will benefit so please my brother by a southern mother just talk about it don t bury more of your children it doesn t need to be like this posted by frank baron at 8 02 pm 27 comments saturday november 03 2012 still alive still not funny 245 a couple of months ago a friend wrote that while she enjoyed the pics i posted in my canon fodder blog she missed my writing especially from way in the long ago when i used to be funny as a reminder she pointed to the sample column on my website posted half an eon or so ago i hadn t read it in several years so i went to the site and despite sore lips from tackling the sports pages the night before i perused the whole darn thing yep not much doubt i used to be funny in case that posted piece was a fluke i checked a few other oldies hilary was kind enough to compile my first few years worth of columns into a book so the checking was pretty easy muttering reading and flicking pages there was no denying it that frank baron was an amusing dude concerned i turned to the people who know and love me best son 1 when s the last time you thought i was funny looking i d have to say now ha ha ha i should have known better and turned to son 2 same question you mean funny looking right now ha ha ha strange how some apples roll quite a distance from the tree i could depend on hil pretty sure hil think before you answer when s the last time you thought i was funny um i guess it was this morning when you were sleeping your hair was sticking straight up on one side and drool was puddling into your beard although that wasn t as funny as yesterday when you tried to button up that old jean jacket you looked like a blue sausage ha ha ha now i didn t just tumble off the turnip truck yesterday i m not as dumb as some people probably and if nothing else even though i may have lost my sense of humour i still have the hard won maturity that comes part and parcel with 61 years on the planet in other words i can accept reality so folks if you want a chuckle from me drop me a line and i ll send you a photo updates we re still looking for a waterfront home we thought we found one last month but it didn t work out we re checking out a couple of new possibles next week remember when i was trying to lure you folks to the message board i set up well i m still in lure mode some of you have joined some of you visit as guests but most of you are still reluctant to check it out consider this a nudge the full fledged all out whining begging guilt tripping and crying will occur when we re settled in the new place all you need do is visit http www runboard com to join just make up a user name and password i use my real name there but most folks use a nickname once you ve joined the overall runboard community you can visit any of the message boards set up there including the nest the url for it is http bwritersnest runboard com i hope to see you there posted by frank baron at 5 11 pm 17 comments thursday june 21 2012 what the flux 244 noun 1 state of flux a state of uncertainty about what should be done usually following some important event preceding the establishment of a new direction of action the free dictionary yep that s plains it that s howcum i haven t posted here in six months i was fluxing i meant to post but i was fluxing my fool head off life has been weird but in an unusual way this time it s been interesting and fun and busy for the first time in my adult life which for those who don t kn...