I am reading a novel about a man’s attempt to change the past. In this case he is trying to prevent the assassination of JFK. I know that time travel isn’t possible but it is just a novel. Although sometimes I wonder if we are on the bank, while the river of time flows by…
Poor Me
What a bummer of a day it was. First, when I was at Tim Hortons to finish things up for my Sunday message, I discovered I had lost my USB key that my nearly completed message was stored on. Then, as I made my way in the torrential rain, I pushed the wrong button on…
2012 is almost here!
I got my first look at a 2012 calendar the other day and, to my surprise, it went right up to December 31st! I checked every day in December and nowhere did I see a notation that indicated the “End of the World”. Then I realized that I was looking at “my” calendar and not…
That’s a Bad Idea
That’s one of the dumbest ideas I’ve heard. In response to a number of deaths in the Valley, related to people mixing alcohol while abusing prescription drugs, the provincial government has responded with . . . an ad campaign. The province wide campaign will include print and television spots warning people about mixing alcohol with…
Fall has Fell
Angela and I were marvelling at the autumn colours last week as we drove along the highway. The woods were a kaleidoscope of colours, no two the same. It wasn’t hard to imagine Jack Frost painting each leaf individually. One of the many things we missed during our time in Australia was fall colours. As…
Arab Spring? Not so much.
What’s with all the protests? And I guess if I have to ask, then I’m probably part of the problem. The occupy Wall Street and now the Occupy Canada movements have been all over the news and I have heard at least one commentator compare these protests to the, “Arab Spring”. The Arab Spring involved…
A Life to Live
56 years ago, a life was saved and a world was changed. When 23 year old Joanne Schielbe discovered she was pregnant, she was a student at the University of Wisconsin and she knew two things. She knew she wasn’t in the position to raise her unborn child but she wanted the very best for…
Nothings is worse than. . .
After I gave blood last week, I decided to enjoy a bowl of soup and a fig newton in exchange for the platelets that had been removed from me. Before dishing up my bowl of soup from the po,t the volunteer tried some to make sure the temperature was fine and apparently it wasn’t because…
Spinning our Webs
Have you had enough spiders this fall? Incredible, the number of arachnids we have around the outside of our house right now. Mind you, having lived in Australia for four years—where you could saddle the spiders and ride them like ponies—these aren’t a particular threat. It’s not the spiders I mind; live and let live,…
I Owed a Debt I Could Not Pay . . .
1.5 Trillion dollars. Imagine, that’s a 1.5 followed by 12 zeros. That is enough to pay off the national debt of England, enough to give every Canadian $50,000.00 or enough to buy every person in the world an iPod. 1.5 Trillion dollars, if it was paid in $1000.00 bills, it would be a stack 163…