THE Goal

It was the only goal that mattered.

As CBC News told the story this morning, "40 years after Paul Henderson's famous goal in Game 8 of the Summit Series, many still remember exactly where they were."
I can ... and I'll tell you later.
It was the perfect cap to a surprisingly hard 7-game hockey series, between the best from Canada and the best from the U-S-S-R.
The series had been a long time in the making.
For more years than Canadians wanted to remember,

New Homes for Old Books

Over the last few weeks at our house, the project has been “clean out the basement of extra stuff.”

You may think that it's a regular event with us, but I want to point out that we moved into our house SEVENTEEN years ago!
Since both of us are retired teachers, we got to amass a lot of teaching materials in our respective classrooms. Some of those are still good, but many were outdated, since today's students preferred to consult the Internet. Some of the boxes had “useful” items