Category Archives: personal

After My Previous Posts about the Stock Market…

Posted on October 19, 2025 by cdsmiller17

You Can Now Call Me a Hypocrite It’s easy to be skeptical about wealth management when you’re poor. But what do you do when you’re suddenly wealthy? Between my wife and myself, we have a quarter of a million Canadian … Continue reading →

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Instinctively, I Knew What It Was

Posted on October 17, 2025 by cdsmiller17

Venus: the Morning Star On the long car journey to Orillia, yesterday morning, I saw a bright light in the sky, before the sun rose. It was like a satellite, or, at best, an airplane, but it didn’t move, keeping … Continue reading →

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Here’s a Simple Introduction to Astrology for Children

Posted on October 15, 2025 by cdsmiller17

The Moon Beams: an Introduction In the very beginning, there were only stars. Then one day, one of the stars decided to make some planets to revolve around it. The name of that star was Sun. And so Sun sent … Continue reading →

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I Tried My Hand at Writing a Children’s Story in 2000

Posted on October 15, 2025 by cdsmiller17

Jessie: First Impressions This is the gentle little story of a young girl living in the farmland of British Columbia during the 1950’s. Her world is simple and her life is easy, as are her thought about the Universe. The … Continue reading →

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A Lot of Preparation Goes into Many of My Plays

Posted on October 14, 2025 by cdsmiller17

Raelity (1980) It was intended to be a cross between Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars. The image shown above is a series of badges to distinguish the different officers of the Raelity crew. The names of those officers were from … Continue reading →

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Here’s Where I Think My Father’s Ashes Ended Up

Posted on October 13, 2025 by cdsmiller17

French River I was going through my family archive of pictures, when I came across three pictures I took in 2007. This one (shown above) is the clearest identifiable photo of the Hwy 69 bridge crossing. This was taken 20 … Continue reading →

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Photographic Proof I Visited the Beatles’ Home Town

Posted on October 12, 2025 by cdsmiller17

Liverpool, Merseyside, UK (Liver Building) The Cavern Club (10 Mathews Street) “Beatle Street” Ferry ‘Cross the Mersey (And previously, a Street Called Hope.)

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Humour Reveals the Human in Each of Us

Posted on October 11, 2025 by cdsmiller17

Humour and Humanity There seems to be a dearth of fun in life, these days. And even when comedians try to poke fun at politicians, those politicians try to stifle the jokes. Someone (I wonder who?) at the top of … Continue reading →

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Proof That We Live in the Wilderness, Now, Too

Posted on October 10, 2025 by cdsmiller17

Road sign, near our new home.

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Are You Sitting Comfortably? Then I’ll Begin

Posted on October 8, 2025 by cdsmiller17

Harvest Moon (October 6, 2025 @ 11:48 PM EDT) Twelve hours before the Harvest Moon came to its fullest, I had our computer speakers completely stop working. Susan suggested our Bluetooth speaker as a substitute, for now. Fine, except that … Continue reading →

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