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…

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…

A couple of weeks ago I spoke about the pain that comes with stepping on Legos and I discussed the reasons why it hurts so much when it happens.  That our feet have a lot of nerve endings, and Legos are really really sharp and edgy and they are super strong so there is not…

Have you ever stepped on a piece of Lego, in the dark? Have you ever wondered how something so small that provides so much enjoyment can cause so much pain? Well, you’re in luck, because I’m going to explain the science behind the pain.  There are basically four reasons that are wrapped up in this.…

Last week I mentioned that the largest Lego kit every produced is the new Millennium Falcon kit which was released a month ago.  The kit has 7,541 pieces is 33 inches long and 22 inches wide and weighs almost 19 pounds. But, more impressive than what you can create with the kits are the artists…

I was probably 9 or 10 when I first discovered Lego, as opposed to the soft plastic bricks that I had been playing with up to that time. Even though Lego had been around for 20 years it was only introduced in Canada in the early sixties.    But even after I discovered the joys of…

As you might be able to tell from the platform, the signs and the bulletin, Lego has been on our mind lately.  Didn’t Stefan do a great job.  Do me a favour, don’t touch my pulpit. The “Lego group” began in the workshop of a Danish carpenter by the name of Ole Kirk Christiansen who…

How many of you grew up with Lego?  Not me, I had the little soft red building blocks when I was a kid. Other kids had Lego, but I had these little red building blocks. They looked like bricks but they only connected at two points and those points were square, so everything you built…

If you remember reading the August 22 1949 edition of Time Magazine then you would remember seeing a young Elizabeth Taylor on the cover and various articles that almost sound current. Under the National section, for example, there was a little bit of a scandal in the white house.  Really?  A scandal in the White…

 It is a serendipitous story, which is a story about serendipity.  Serendipity, isn’t that a great word?  It is probably one of my favourite words.  You know what serendipity means right?  Serendipity means an unexpected discovery.  You know when you are looking for something and you find something else.  You know you drop the remote…