It's Literacy Day across Canada and I'm looking forward to participation in it! The folks at the Nottawa Elementary School have invited me to be a guest reader tonight at 6 O'clock. The question for me...what book would be appropriate? As chance would have it, I'm interviewing Canadian author Linda Bailey from Vancouver about her book...THE FARM TEAM"...on Thursday. She is delighted that I'm using her book. The timing is good considering the Olympics are about to start and this book is about hockey. It doesn't get any more Canadian than that! RIGHT! I think the kids will get a kick out of it. By the way, you can learn more about the book by going to www.kidscanpress.com
The older you get, things start to go, like hearing. This e-mail made me smile when I read it this morning...
A man feared his wife Peg wasn't hearing as well as she used to and he thought she might need a hearing aid. Not quite sure how to approach her, he called the family Doctor to discuss the problem. The Doctor told him there is a simple informal test the husband
Could perform to give the Doctor a better idea about her hearing loss. Here's what you do,' said the Doctor, 'stand about 40 feet away
from her, and in a normal conversational speaking tone see if she hears you. If not, go to 30 feet, then 20 feet, and so on until you get a response. That evening, the wife is in the kitchen cooking dinner, and he was
in the den.. He says to himself, 'I'm about 40 feet away, let's see what happens.' Then in a normal tone he asks, 'Honey, what's for dinner?'
No response.
So the husband moves closer to the kitchen, about 30 feet from his wife and repeats, 'Peg, what's for dinner?'
Still no response.
Next he moves into the dining room where he is about 20 feet from his wife and asks, 'Honey, what's for dinner?'
Again he gets no response.
So, he walks up to the kitchen door, about 10 feet away. 'Honey, what's for dinner?' Again there is no response.
So he walks right up behind her. 'Peg, what's for dinner?'
(I just love this)
'Frank , for the FIFTH BLOODY time, CHICKEN!'