Having grown up in the Maritimes and spending most of my teens years around boats and ships of one description or another I am fairly familiar with fog, especially when you consider my formative years were spent in Saint John or as we fondly remember it CFBC, Canada’s Fog Bound City. And some fog was…
Reflections on a Saviour
If I was to ask you to name a story that began on Christmas Eve (without the obvious spiritual answer), some people would answer with “A Visit from Saint Nick”, and that would be a good answer. “T’was the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring not even a…
Maybe this is the year
Well, a new year is upon us. 2017 is now nothing but a memory and 2018 is stretched out ready for us to make our mark. Got any plans for the new year? Are you planning on starting some new habits or ditching some old ones? 2018 could be the year to do it. As…
Come on Ring those Bells
I guess I’ve done it enough now that it’s become a tradition. This week I volunteered with the Salvation Army to tend a kettle in the mall. I was a little disappointed that I didn’t get a bell, so I downloaded an app for my smart phone. What says Christmas like a bearded fat man,…
Happy Birthday
Is it my imagination or are there more Christmas lights up this year then there were last year? Angela and I were commenting on it the other night and it seems like every street is trying to out-do the other, at least in Kingswood. The displays range from the understated and tasteful to the “oh…
Chance or Choice
This year is the hundredth anniversary of the Halifax Explosion, but I’m sure most of you knew that. And you probably knew that it was the largest man-made explosion until the explosion of the atomic bomb. The Halifax explosion has defined our city for the past century. And I knew all those things but what…
A Reflection of Change
I’m really not fond of change, I don’t like carrying it around in my pockets, I find it bulky an d uncomfortable, so I have a jar on my dresser that I dump all my change in so I don’t have to carry it. And come vacation time I will roll it and take it…