Talk about a swing in emotions. I have been working on two separate messages this week, one for Good Friday and another one for Easter Sunday. One was a message of despair, and the other was a message of hope. One a message of defeat and the other a message of victory. One a message…

I feel like the guy in Green Eggs and Ham. Not Sam-I-Am, the other guy. For years I have told myself and others that I didn’t like Eggs Benedict because I didn’t like hollandaise sauce. Last month I tried some of Angela’s hollandaise sauce on the tip of my finger and discovered that I do…

Do you ever find yourself listening to voices at 3 o’clock in the morning? No, not your neighbours, or even others in your home. I’m talking about the voices inside your head. Before you call the men in the white jackets, bear with me. I am always amazed at what I learn at three o’clock…

Don’t you hate it when you have a bad customer experience? And often, our first reaction is to complain to someone or post a negative review. That’s what Thomas Colucci had in mind when he called the police. The Florida man called 911 to complain that the meth he had just purchased wasn’t the quality…

Have you noticed lately how much more daylight we are seeing? Each day it's getting light earlier and staying light longer and, as Martha Stewart would say, that's a good thing. Spring is not only an awesome time of the year, but it's also a great metaphor for life. No matter how dark, cold and…

It has been interesting to watch the world rally around Ukraine over the past week since Russia's invasion. Sanctions have been put in place, aid has been committed and support has been promised. I don't know that I've ever seen this type of worldwide solidarity before. It has been both political and corporate. Of course…

Recently, I was reminded of a conference I attended several years ago entitled Effective Marriage Counselling. What did I learn? I learned, or at least I was reminded yet again, that marriages are worth saving. We live in a society where marriage is seen as a temporary state where more and more people are becoming…

That was a little embarrassing. One poll revealed that most Canadians could not identify Samuel de Champlain as the founding father of the first permanent European settlement in what was to become Canada. Most people chose Jacques Cartier, which is understandable, as we credit him with the European discovery of Canada in 1534 and established…

"Why on my 6th and 7th birthday I coldn’t have a party, and you were?" That question was asked by 7-year-old Isobel in a letter she wrote to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Her letter was sparked by the revelations of sixteen social gatherings held at the PM’s Downing Street residence while the country was…

Boy, it’s hard to take a stand when you really don’t want to pay the cost of taking a stand.Earlier in the year, I heard about a potential boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing. The call to boycott the games began with the US and the UK, Canada, Australia, Lithuania and Kosovo have joined…