Banned. It seems that in today’s culture, you can choose to identify as a variety of thing. You can pick the gender you wish to identify as and, according to therians and otherkins, you can even pick your species.However, it would appear that you can’t choose to identify as blind when you can actually see.Last…

Last Saturday morning, I was leaving Tim Horton’s, as hard as that is to believe, when an older gentleman spoke to me. He nodded and commented on the beautiful morning.  To which I replied, “Yes, and it’s supposed to be like this all weekend.” His response was, “It’s about time. We deserve it.”And it might…

She was angry, frustrated, and finally disappointed.  28-year-old Bhoomi Chauhan was delayed in traffic and arrived ten minutes too late to check in for her flight. Turned away at the counter, she left the airport angry. Angry with traffic, angry with the airport staff and angry with herself for not leaving earlier for the airport.…

You would think that some things should go without saying, but obviously not. You may have heard on the news that American air travellers are now required to have REAL ID to board their planes. If REAL ID isn’t available, the accepted alternatives are passports, border crossing and permanent resident cards. But apparently not Costco…

Interesting. I read an excerpt from the book, Murderland, Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers. The book’s author, Caroline Fraser, speculates on the toxic air around the industrial city of Tacoma, Washington, in the early 1960s and its impact on some of those who lived in Tacoma during that time.The air was…

The other day, I had the opportunity to spend six hours in Truro with eighty pastors from around the Maritimes. There were Wesleyans, Baptists, Pentecostals and Catholic clergy who had gathered with one purpose: to pray. To pray for our churches, to pray for our people, to pray for our politicians and to pray for…

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about not taking health advice from centenarians. Siri must have read the Penn, because last week I had a suggestion in my news feed about an article entitled “The Longest Living People in the World All Abide by the ‘Power 9’ Rule.”Apparently, there are areas in the world…

I imagine that somewhere in the Quebec riding of Terrebonne, someone is kicking themselves. Maybe more than one. This will hopefully be my last political post for a while. Hopefully. Maybe you read the story, if not, after a recent recount, Liberal candidate Tatiana Auguste finished ahead of incumbent Bloc Québécois candidate Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné by…

Baptism. Before I was baptized, I never really thought about baptism. My family was nominally Baptist, that is, as I’ve explained before, the local Baptist church was the church we didn’t go to when we didn’t go to church. So, when we lived in Lower Lincoln, outside of Fredericton, we didn’t go to Lincoln United…

Well, that seems counter intuitive. I recently read an article entitled, “Never Take Health Tips from the World’s Oldest People.” The premise of the article was that scientist are still trying to figure out why some people can live past 100 years old. And while they haven’t been able to come to a consensus, the…