Probably the sweetest natured dog I’ve ever met, year old Sadie the hound just ate her seventh leash. Polite and well-trained (for a hound), she was panting yesterday in the garden while the temperature hovered around 85. Cat-lover though leash-eater, her passion still is other dogs. Weighing about the same as her owner, she is [...]

When this blog started, I understood it was to let you know about the good times you could have in the downtown that you could not have in the suburban malls and shopping centres that surround our city like so many wolf dens circling a henhouse. I began to write about the characters you might [...]

I usually use one of these two graphics when I am in a protest rally. Either this picture enlarged, of my grandbaby on a stick or Giles old cranky granny with the saying: ‘Grannies Against Stupidity in Government.’ As a dedicated member of a group hoping to leave a better world for our grandchildren, I [...]

(Tune: White Sports Coat & A Pink Carnation) by Rose DeShaw The Three Stooges and BP Oil Trussed us all up For their dance The three Stooges Pratfall with BP Eye gouge with Right wing rants. Once they told us Long ago They were going green You know Now they changed their mind It seems [...]

I wrote this song last April when grandmothers I knew were tryng to get to Gaza. There are several more. Posted: 04/29/09 Author: Rose DeShaw Tune: The Water Is Wide (Old English Folk) 1)The Gaza Strip is in the news The push is on, to make us choose We have to say, we choose the [...]

1)Tune: Done stayed around…this ol’ town too long It wasn’t much of a government But it was all we had It was all we had, boys, It was all we had And now it’s gone on holidays (That Harper’s quite the lad) And we’ve got no parliament to carry on! CHORUS Done kept this kind [...]