We were home for our yearly pilgrimage to Newfoundland from Nova Scotia where we had been for so many years. My children were teenagers and probably on their last trip with us before they left the nest. I wanted them to know Trinity Bay, and all the different Newfoundland foods and prepared dishes that are and have been a staple in the diet of Newfoundlanders for many, many years. And bearing in mind that the dietary delights of us Newfoundlanders would probably destroy the intestinal track of the ordinary mortal with its' high fat and high salt content, but we love it! 

In one little community we noticed a sign on a take-out restaurant that read ‘FISH AND BREWIS’.

Good enough, I thought. If their father and I eat it, maybe the kids will try it. I approached the young girl at the window and asked if they still had the special as was advertised on their sign.

"Ahhhhh, no we doesn’t," she replied.

So I asked when they would have it.

"I don’t know really," she answered, "but we has it every day when we does has it, but we doesn’t has any today!"

Well, after that, needless to say, every time I asked my kids a question such as "Did you brush your teeth?", they would remember that day and say, "Well, I brushes them every day when I does brush ‘em, but I hasn’t brushed them today!"

Oh, Me Nerves!

Bonnie Jarvis-Lowe

"You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices." Deepak Chopra