Bob Groeneveld

Odd Thoughts: Preparing for significance

Odd Thoughts: Preparing for significance

I am facing the coming evenfall with a smidgen of awe and…

Odd Thoughts: Preparing for significance
Odd Thoughts: Buy into a better system

Odd Thoughts: Weather or not, something’s wrong

Langley Advance columnist Bob Groeneveld ponders the great outdoors.

Odd Thoughts: Buy into a better system
Odd Thoughts: Buy into a better system

Odd Thoughts: Stars shine across the Rockies

The grandkids were down for a visit early August, just at the…

Odd Thoughts: Buy into a better system
Odd Thoughts: Buy into a better system

Odd Thoughts: Monkey’s brain loss a quandary

Our monkey is missing its brains.Actually, it’s not really our monkey, it’s…

Odd Thoughts: Buy into a better system
Odd Thoughts: Buy into a better system

Odd Thoughts: Fence posts rule democracy

It’s high time they showed their true colours.With the federal government promising…

Odd Thoughts: Buy into a better system
Odd Thoughts: Buy into a better system

Odd Thoughts: Buy into a better system

We have some of the best politicians that money can buy.I know.…

Odd Thoughts: Buy into a better system
Odd Thoughts: Art lesson hammered home

Odd Thoughts: Touching technology everywhere

I used to head out into a secluded spot in the Interior…

Odd Thoughts: Art lesson hammered home
Odd Thoughts: Art lesson hammered home

Odd Thoughts: Art lesson hammered home

Close your eyes for a moment and think of an artist at…

Odd Thoughts: Art lesson hammered home
Odd Thoughts: Art lesson hammered home

Odd Thoughts: O, what a tangled web…

I don’t hate spiders.Far from it.They just scare me brainless… sometimes literally.I’ve…

Odd Thoughts: Art lesson hammered home
Odd Thoughts: Successful invaders bear fruit

Odd Thoughts: Successful invaders bear fruit

What do you do about invaders who attempt to take over your…

Odd Thoughts: Successful invaders bear fruit
Odd Thoughts: Successful invaders bear fruit

Odd Thoughts: Understanding with worms

Do earthworms realize I’m doing my best for them? That I truly…

Odd Thoughts: Successful invaders bear fruit
Odd Thoughts: Successful invaders bear fruit

Odd Thoughts: Twelve days of Trump mess

On the first day of his presidency Donald gave to us:His image…

Odd Thoughts: Successful invaders bear fruit
Odd Thoughts: Successful invaders bear fruit

Odd Thoughts: Bad drivers like cherry pies

I was busy in the kitchen, baking some cherry pies, when I…

Odd Thoughts: Successful invaders bear fruit
Odd Thoughts: Money is chick-chucked away

Odd Thoughts: Money is chick-chucked away

Long ago when the earth was much younger than it is today,…

Odd Thoughts: Money is chick-chucked away
Odd Thoughts: Money is chick-chucked away

Odd Thoughts: Game sets fools on the throne

They have set themselves against Daenerys Targaryen and her cobbled alliance of…

Odd Thoughts: Money is chick-chucked away
Odd Thoughts: Satisfaction guaranteed... almost

Odd Thoughts: Satisfaction guaranteed… almost

I’m sitting here, eating my own bread.That may not seem remarkable, at…

Odd Thoughts: Satisfaction guaranteed... almost
Odd Thoughts: Satisfaction guaranteed... almost

Odd Thoughts: Excitement shared by force

I’m angry.Computers are machines, subject to glitches and breakdowns.But mine just did…

Odd Thoughts: Satisfaction guaranteed... almost
Odd Thoughts: Death’s desire finally dignified

Odd Thoughts: Death’s desire finally dignified

A deadline is fast approaching.And “deadline” is an apt description of the…

Odd Thoughts: Death’s desire finally dignified
Odd Thoughts: Death’s desire finally dignified

Odd Thoughts: Driven to distraction by MPs

Yet another scandal has rocked Canada's House of Commons. The country is…

Odd Thoughts: Death’s desire finally dignified
Odd Thoughts: Death’s desire finally dignified

Odd Thoughts: Vote for dysfunction

With no elections in the offing, federal and provincial politicians are naturally…

Odd Thoughts: Death’s desire finally dignified