All posts by George Walters

George Walters is a Canadian columnist and author with more than forty years of writing experience. For over twenty years he has written a weekly column for Postmedia Network — Canada's largest newspaper chain — never missing a single week, publishing fifty-two stories a year. Combined with his work in Reader's Digest Community Voices, World News, Country Living, The Country Register, and farm and rural lifestyle magazines across Canada, he has published well over two thousand stories drawn from everyday life. He writes about farm work, fishing, old trucks, and the kind of people you only find in small towns — but just as likely he'll hand a voice to a weathered telephone pole, or turn his eye on something happening in the world today and tell you exactly what he thinks about it. No subject is off limits. If there's a story in it, George will find it. He has been called a philosopher of everyday life, a description that came up more than once during his television appearances over the years — and it's not hard to see why. His writing has a way of making the ordinary feel worth sitting with. He is the author of eleven books, including yearly short story collections and the Clay Moretti Files mystery series. Clay is a fifty-year-old private investigator who drives a 1967 Ford Galaxie, smokes cigars, and operates by a code the modern world gave up on a long time ago. The cases are present day. The man handling them is not. All titles are available in paperback and eBook on Amazon. Together, George and his wife Ruth have also created Elmer Finds His Way, the first in what he hopes will be a long series of children's books. Ruth did all the illustrations, as she has for every one of George's books — and beyond that she designed and painted the covers as well. Her work is woven into every page of everything he has published. A few words from readers: "I pulled up a kitchen chair and read your story three times." "You have a way of making a person homesick for a place they haven't been to." "Thank you for writing things that make old people and kids feel the same way at the same time." All my titles are available in paperback and eBook on Amazon.ca here.

What’s Happening in and around Port Loring, Ontario, Canada on Nov 3/2022

Good Morning!

It looks like another nice sunny day is shaping up for us in Port Loring. The sun is almost out of bed, as I am typing away here on my computer. Highway 522 is bare and dry this morning. There are a lot of trucks moving up and down the highway this morning. Lots of construction going on these days with new homes being built. Sign of the times, they say. Some people like it, some don’t.

On another note, I did light my woodworking shop stove yesterday, but decided to do some outside work in the bush by our home. Since it was a nice day. But in doing so, the issues I was having all summer started to come back, so I had to go lay down. It’s still bothering me this morning, so … I guess I will be laid up for a few days. I hope I didn’t mess it up like it was before, as I was just beginning to feel really good too. I have to learn, my limits and quit before things gets out of hand.

With that I am off for my breakfast and will then go and lay down for a bit.

In Closing, I Would Like To Wish You Well.

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New Electric Car Issues

A lot of folks are now thinking of buying an electric vehicle these days. Personally, I think this is a bad decision, as if you took a close look at all that goes into making these cars, you would soon see that the material they require and how they have to go about getting these materials, is also going to pollute and hurt our environment. Maybe more so than our fossil fuels that we are using today. Not to forget all the cost it will take to switch over. And then … where are we going to get all the electricity to keep them charged up.

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What I believe should be done is make our fossil fuels safe to use, and go with that. We have lots and if we did that our country would become more self-reliant than ever before … that is the fix for our country. Becoming self-reliant instead of relying on others.

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