JD Lagrange

Blog: Under Grumpa's Hat (Grumpa.ca) Life / Humour #PuraVida - Canadian 🇨🇦 in Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Other medias: https://linktr.ee/jocelyndarilagrange

When Sports Sing Politics

I am a traditionalist. I like traditions that have earned their place rather than traditions that exist simply because nobody…

16 hours ago

The Great Costco Sample Shuffle

There are few places where a perfectly respectable adult can lose all sense of dignity faster than Costco. You walk…

3 days ago

Perfect Is Overrated

We live in a world obsessed with perfection. Perfect bodies, perfect homes, perfect careers, perfect relationships and, thanks to social…

6 days ago

A Poem About Quebec’s Maple Magic

Across Quebec, the maple trees stand tall,Their strong limbs reach to greet the sky,While summer breezes whisper softly by,And leafy…

1 week ago

The Naked Truth About Forty Years

There are certain things a husband should never surprise his wife with after forty years of marriage. A new hairstyle…

1 week ago

The Storm Keeper

For nearly thirty years, Elias Ward had been the keeper of Blackwater Lighthouse, a lonely stone tower standing on a…

2 weeks ago

Speed Bumps: When the Road Fights Back

I was out for a walk around the neighbourhood the other day, and I noticed something that made me shake…

2 weeks ago

Words Worth Remembering

Wisdom is a funny thing. We spend the first half of our lives trying to learn everything we can, and…

2 weeks ago

The Garage Sale Lie

There is a particular kind of optimism that appears when someone decides it is time to declutter the house. It…

3 weeks ago

Welcome to the Pumpkin Spice Apocalypse

It starts innocently enough. The calendar says September or October, the mornings are a little cooler, the leaves have begun…

3 weeks ago