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Dear Editor: In a winter 1960-61 issue your newspaper carried a classified ad offering for sale a "four-besider with a built-in hemingway." Many readers contacted the newspaper to ask what this item might be. That is my question now.

Isn't it funny how, sometimes, things just work out? That disaster is narrowly avoided due only to a set of circumstances that could not be planned in advance, or even conceived of in one's wildest imagination? For instance, about a month ago, I had

This December 6 marks the 21st year that we remember and mourn the 14 women who were shot and killed at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989, murdered because they were women.

Well, it is a sad week in Regina, and not only because the Saskatchewan Roughriders lost again in the Grey Cup.

December begins with the moon just ending her final phases - four days from new moon Dec. 5. Then, Dec.

As the Grey Cup loss sets in as reality for Saskatchewan Roughriders fans, the water cooler talk of the day was on Darian Durant and the interception he tossed up late in the fourth quarter in Edmonton.

Well that's that. The Saskatchewan Roughriders' centennial season of 2010 ended in anti-climactic fashion with a 21-18 loss to the Montreal Alouettes in the 98th Grey Cup at Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium Sunday.

Comment and History from a Prairie Perspective

For us, one of the joys of the 2010 holiday season will be to watch the festivities through the eyes of Lucy. Lucy Christina, our newest grandchild, will be nine months old on the last day of December.

I just read a blog posting in which the author was whining about the lack of tipping at a restaurant they worked at. The author quit because some of the customers were allegedly too cheap to tip.