Lone Star Parson

  My Mother-in-Law died last Saturday after a long and very difficult illness. She did so with the Rites of the Church, and many thanks go o...

  So just what, exactly, are you back from, so-called LSP? I'll tell you, an explosive tour around the Old Country. In brief: Survive t...

  Here's the thing, the land of the ice and snow was more like the land of t shirt and shorts for most of the past week. Obviously someo...

  In the States we honor veterans on November 11 but in Commonwealth countries people mark the date as Remembrance Day, looking back to the ...

  The plane touched down and off we went into the frozen expanse of Calgary's airport. It's larger now and the new terminal seems a ...

  The land of the ice and snow , aka Canada, which means getting up at an unearthly hour tomorrow and venturing forth to DFW and the joy of ...

  A few years ago I flew to Calgary with my eldest son to visit family after Christmas. Because he was/is serving and we were flying AA, the...

It took a while, some would say too long, but at last Alberta's hated Chief Medical Officer Deenah Hinshaw has been fired. Hinshaw was n...

  From the land of the Ice and Snow and pre-deployment exeat. Dog inna fight? I'll leave it there but feel free to comment on the iniqui...

  This photo comes via Every Blade of Grass who reminds us to "remember all those who are busy doing other things, and can't be ho...

  Here we are, fighting the War Against The Weather, again, as our new ketchup fortune Climate Czar unironically flies around the world in h...

Hope you're all prepped up and ready to "bug-in" or go "innawoods" because it's staring to get nasty, in a...

Sources in Calgary on the front line of the fight against the Chinese Bat Bug say this song's being played on a continuous loop in...

Here we are on the dawn of a whole new year and I can't complain about the closing days of the last. A pub lunch and darts at the S...

Christmas day was great, feasting and fun with friends and family, then it was Boxing Day. I strolled over to a diner with the Private ...

Word to the wise. If you're fixing to have all your teeth out, don't plan on chewing anything for a while. Making high qu...

In what seemed like no time at all my stay in Calgary was over, and there I was, being driven by a Sikh to the airport with a bright ...

Calgary's Mewata Drill Hall, or Armoury, is home to several units, including the Calgary Highlanders and the King's Own Calgary...