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.

Starlink Mission

I have been following his missions from the very beginning, which are very interesting. Smart man and I give him a lot of credit for what he is accomplishing. We need more like him in our world today.

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Morning Chat March 11/2021

Good Morning! It’s kind of a cloudy day here in Port Loring, Ontario, Canada. It is windy too, but the temperature is really nice, sitting at 11.9 C | 53.42 F, Yesterday we lost a lot of our snow, and we will continue on that trend for most of the day. And if we are real lucky, we should see a wee bit of sunshine. Which will get rid of more of our snow. Then things will cool down some for the next 4 days. After that … things will warm back up to near norms for this time of year. Highway 522 is bare and wet this morning which will make travelling good. My lovely wife and I went to town yesterday, to pick up our groceries that we order online. Doing it that way we don’t have to enter any stores, and take a chance on catching the virus. Truth be told … we will continue on doing this after this virus is over with, as it sure makes things a lot easier … and the best part is we save a lot of money. Well … we still spend a lot as right now groceries are an outrageous price. They have never been so high. But I guess it is the price, of living these days. While there we visited our son in his apartment parking lot, from a distance, ate our lunch in our car watching the people putting their lives at risk, going in and out of stores. We then had our coffee and came on home chatting to our sons on the phone along the way. What could be better than that? Not much in my books. With that … I am off for my morning bowl of cereal with my lovely wife, and will then see what the day has in store. Stay safe, as this virus is edging it’s way to getting a lot worse right at the moment. Especially these new variants.

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Morning Chat March 10/2021

Good Morning! It’s a cloudy morning here in Port Loring Ontario. The temperature rolling out of bed was sitting at 2.9 C | 37.22 F. It will warm up a lot more as the day progresses. I don’t think we will see much sun today, but you never know, it might sneak through these clouds off and on. Highway 522 is bare and dry this morning. We had no snow overnight. The good news is we did lose a lot of our snow yesterday, and that trend will continue for the next two weeks. So I am thinking within a week most of our snow will have left us for another year. Which is okay by me. On another note I didn’t do too much yesterday, just took things easy and stayed inside. I will probably do much of the same today. With that, take care and stay safe. Just because the vaccines are coming our way, is no reason to let down our defences.

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Morning Chat March 9/2021

Good Morning! For a change we are having some sunshine here in Port Loring, Ontario this morning. The temperature at the time of this post was a touch cool sitting at -2.9 C | 26.78 F. But it is about to warm up substantially in an hour or so. Which will sure be nice. I have to admit my wife and I are looking forward to it. Highway 522 is bare and almost dry this morning with no snow overnight. The snow we do have has been melting in spite of the cold nights, as you can see the snow dropping every day. It melts from underneath and around the trees at first, then when it warms up it really gets going. Today and tomorrow should get rid of a pile, and if we get some warm rain, that will help even more. Yesterday I took it easy and will do the same again today. I guess my old body needs a rest, or so it feels. I think I will work on another podcast that I have in the works. I will see how things are going in a bit. With that I am off for my morning bowl of cereal with my lovely wife, and will then see what the day has in store. Life’s a mystery. Take care and stay safe. GW

All my books are available on my Amazon Author Page.

If you purchase a book, a brief Amazon review really helps new readers discover my work—it means a lot.

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In Closing, I Would Like to Wish You Well!

George Walters | [email protected]