Wrong Place, Wrong Time?
(the following was originally written on Aug. 13, 2004 ... and updated today)
I know that I am not the first to contemplate this ... nor will I be the last.
Do you ever wonder if you were born in the wrong time and place? Or, at the very least, look on other time periods and wonder if they had it 'better' ... whatever that might mean. Today I went to a local heritage site ... a place that is a step back in history. They have collected buildings from throughout the beginning days and years of this province's history and placed them in one location, recreating a town of sorts from those days long gone. I have to admit, there is a part of me that yearns to have lived in another time. I have entertained thoughts of what life might have been like during a variety of times and places ... medieval Europe, time of the Reformation, or Renaissance, days of exploration and discovery, Edwardian or Elizabethan England, Victorian times (American or British), or when America was be...