He had become a celebrity, there was no other word for it, he had toured with his wife across the United States and Canada and crowds flocked to see him.  During his time in the U.S., because of his celebrity status, he was granted an opportunity to address Congress on international copyright issues.   As a…

As a child he was a voracious reader and his favourite book was The Arabian Nights, which he read over and over again.  For a while his family was able to afford to send him to a private school where he flourished, but that was short lived.   He was twelve years old when his…

When Angela and I first got married she told me that one of the things that she did with her dad each Christmas was to watch A Christmas Carol. But it had to be the Alastair Sim one from 1951, and not the colourized version either. The movie was first released in the UK under…

This is week six of our Terms and Condition series here at Cornerstone and since early October we looked at some of the terms and conditions that show up in the Bible.   And each week we have reviewed our definition of Terms and Conditions, Terms and Conditions are Rules by which one must agree…

If you follow me on Facebook, that’s assuming that you’ve read the terms and conditions for Facebook and agreed to them, then you might have seen some of my posts from the Babylonian Bee, which is a Christian Satire site, recently this one struck me as fitting.   BOSTON, MA—Local man Justin Fuller immediately fell…

Click here, accept this, check here.  You’ve seen the words.  And they all signify the same thing, that you have read and accepted the terms and conditions of something.   This is week two of our Terms and Conditions series.  Last week we defined Terms and Conditions this way: Terms and Conditions: are rules by which one…

Until 1991 I don’t think I ever heard the words “Terms and Conditions”, at least not together, and then I installed my first software package and I had to “Click here”.   And over the past 27 years, I've probably clicked on a million Terms and Conditions boxes, I just made up that number.  And…

Dad told me that once as a teen he was with his father on their fishing boat when the weather turned nasty.  Dad was whining and complaining about how rough it was and how he wished that they had of stayed home instead of going fishing.   And his father told him, “you wouldn’t want…

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that it seemed that whenever Dad and I were chatting that our conversations often drifted to storms that we had been in together when we were at sea.  And the reason, of course, is that the storms are more memorable than the nice days at sea, not necessarily…

It started out kind of petty and ended up being kind of funny. It was 1978 and I was fishing with my Dad out of the Gaspe Coast of Quebec. The boat hadn’t been converted to a seiner yet so we were still configured as a midwater trawler. Dad was chief mate; his twin was…