It can be healthy from time to time to take some time to reflect on one’s own life and the decisions we have made that have shaped us to be the way we are. Sometimes those decisions have put us in a good spot, and maybe sometimes the very opposite. Ageing does definitely change the…
It has been a very busy weekend for our church, but particularly for the ladies. My wife was working well into Friday night and early Saturday morning measuring, mixing and then baking several dozen chocolate chip and peanut butter cookies for our church bake sale tables. The bake sale was part of a large community…
Officially it is called the Victoria Day weekend, but many people call it “May two-four”, or the “May 24 long weekend”. What makes it so special in Canada, is that after a long winter, the weather is warming up, and there is a pretty good chance you can walk around without a jacket. It is…
Electricity has always been around, but it has only just been over a century that mankind has been able to commercially harness it. Who would have thought. Who would have thought that from that daring experiment by Benjamin Franklin where he extracted power from a lightning rod using a metal key tied to a kite. And today…
From the website link on mother’s day facts, trivia and lore; Mother’s Day is celebrated in over 50 countries of the world. Many counties the day is celebrated in May, but in some countries it is held on a completely different month of the year. And for whatever reason, the vast majority of languages worldwide,…
Mrs. Klapisch’s cat was feeling a bit off so she took it to the veterinarian. The doctor had her hold the animal on the examining table as he touched and gently squeezed it. He then walked slowly around the table, all the while looking back and forth, back and forth. When he was done, he…
The word loyalty means 1: the state of being loyal; fidelity and 2: faithfulness or devotion to some person, cause or nation. Some stores, airlines, banks and gas companies have what is sometimes called “loyalty cards”. We earn points that when we accumulate enough, it entitles us to free merchandise or trips. Would we be…
It was a very historic day, April 22nd, 1970. After demonstrations in the streets, auditoriums and classrooms that involved over 20 million Americans on topics from clean air and water to endangered species Earth Day was conceptualized. Twenty years later Earth Day became global with Canada becoming one of the 141 countries joining in on…
There was a time when my kids were little and either my wife and I would ask how much they love us. It was so cute as they would spread their arms as wide as they could get them and say, “That much!” And sometimes they would do it without even being asked. How cool…
In some parts of our lives or another fear is something we have all had to deal with. It was the Pulitzer Prize winning American author and humorist Dave Barry who wrote, “All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears–of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the…
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