CATCH IT IF YOU CAN!

There is something predictable about watching Canadian or American football.

The team with the football huddle together figuring out what's best to come

next. Then they spread out and try to make it happen.

You want a change of scenery?

Catch the Women's World Cup of Rugby, this year from York, England

and you'll be glued to the small screen until it's over.

What mayhem! It's unpredictabe! You're watching sheer mayhem.

Unlike the men these women wear no protected shoulder or kneepads. Or

whatever. They're in nothing more than loose shirts and short shorts. Runners.

They hit each other down and bounce up giving back knock for

knock.

Author's comment: It's wild and wooly, leaving you breathless. It did me. Catch it

if you can.

NO KIDDING!

Our son, Nathaniel, phoned to say, "Hi. What's up?"

It was as if the call, as clear as could be, came from

next door. When in fact he and his buddy Roy

were in Spain on their way to France.

How life repeats itself. I was working at the St. Thomas

Times Journal in editorial years ago when a friend

from advertising suggested we take off on a holiday

to Europe. It opened up a whole new world for me.

Author's comment: My wife Rosanne and I have found

ourselves in Paris several times. We stay on the left bank,

Place St. Michel. What a view.