As difficult as it might seem to believe, I was having a coffee at Tim Horton’s the other day and I heard a staff member comment on how pleased the staff was that the roll up the rim contest was finished for yet another year. Curious, I asked why that was?  She replied, explaining that…

It was good to see old friends again, if only for a couple of hours.  This week Angela and I finally got around to seeing Star Wars: The Force Awakens.  And we enjoyed the familiar faces, although through the years the characters kept getting mixed up. Sometimes I thought I saw Indiana Jones instead of…

We are home from our vacation. We had a great time and everything went smoothly right up to our flight home.  Plane left on time, flight crew was great, we arrived on time and then we attempted to land in Halifax.  We experienced some of the worst turbulence that I have ever been in and…

One night our phone rang at 4:45, in the morning! You know that if you get a telephone call at that hour it can't be good news. Nobody calls you at quarter to five in the morning just to say hello or to tell you that you’ve won the lottery, in which case it would…

You can find pictures of it everywhere, I have two in my office, but that’s to be expected, my Grandfather was born there over a hundred years ago.  And I while I have seen it from a distance I never actually got over for a visit, and now it’s too late.  It was a little…

I was talking to a friend the other day when the topic of the terrorist attacks in Burkina Faso came up & she mentioned that I had been there in the past and wanted to know how I felt about what had happened.  And the conversation got me thinking, I was supposed to be leading…

Last Thursday, I had a late afternoon appointment with my eye specialist and as part of the process he dilated my eyes.  Not the first time I’ve had my eyes dilated but I never had them dilated so late in the day before.  After supper Angela and I drove our son back into the city,…

1.3 billion dollars, that’s a one and a three followed by eight zeros.  That’s the projected jackpot in the US Lottery Powerball this week.  And there will be people who will play this week who didn’t play last week because apparently last weeks’ jackpot of just under a billion dollars wasn’t large enough, but 1.3…

The other day, I sat with a lady who is receiving palliative care, and she cheered me up.  It’s not often that happens, but during the entire time there I didn’t hear a discouraging word from her, no complaints, no regrets.Bev has spent her life loving Jesus and serving His church as a pastor’s wife…

Well, Christmas has come and gone and New Year’s Eve is just a memory. How are you feeling about 2016? Are you excited? Are you cautious? Are you simply resigned to it happening? The reality is that, regardless of how we feel about the coming year, there is a very good chance that it is…