MARILYN CORNWELL

  The bright light travelling over the night sky of Quebec a few days ago was "the second stage of an Ariane 6 rocket which was ignitin...

  I went to the TASC Tulip Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake yesterday.  It was vast with more than 3 million blooms of 175 varieties on 55 ac...

  Do shepherds watch their flocks by night in the winter - that 's the question of whether Jesus born in winter?  It turns out to be a  ...

  The news today tells us there are things besides waterfalls and rivers under the surface of our seas.  There are "blobs".  They ...

  The story in the daily NY Times is about a Chopin waltz, previously unknown.  It was found in a collection of memorabilia.  The manuscript...

  What is the state of poetry today?  It seems far away and long ago to me.  But that turns out to be where my attention has been directed, ...

  July is the seventh month and gives rise to this Seventh Theme Joke: A man wakes up on the 7th of July at 7 o’clock When he wakes up, he c...

  Stonehenge was in the news yesterday for the Solstice and for a Just Stop Oil spray-painting of the stones.   There are pictures of people...

  Would you consider a wearable sleeping bag an "essential standby".  Our author from the Wirecutter does.   They are different th...

  Opinion.  There's a lot of it about. In fact, it seems to be edging out the factual event news.  Take the Coronation on the weekend.  ...

  When someone asks you if there's something your schedule today.  Don't you sometimes say "Nothing" - as though we could ...

  The New York Times had a headline on the right way for a throuple to break up.  What is a throuple?  Spellcheck, like me, doesn't know...