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     Conversation is crucial to relationships–without words, there will never exist an opportunity to be drawn closer to or pulled further from another.
     While working on the sea shore one day–four average Jewish men were probably thinking about a wide range of issues–politics, business, payments, spiritual issues, direction in life, raising a family and so [...]

     All of us have things we would like to either happen to us or belong to us.  There is certainly nothing wrong about this nor is it dangerous.  I think it would be safe to say that all of us also enjoy when others take the time and effort to do some form of [...]

I think Elton John is one of the greatest musicians of the past 30 years.  His one song about the connection between a father and his son who is dying of aids (I think it is called The Last Song) is one that sends chills down my spine as I think about how powerful love [...]

     One of the most horrible things imaginable was on the front page of the Windsor Star this morning: it seems a surgeon (a well respected one) failed to properly read the pathology report concerning a woman she was about to operate on and removed a breast that she didn’t need to.
     Now, this isn’t [...]

Usually I would have posted something about the impact of this man on our world–none more important than his infusion (at least into the debate) that the best way to respond to violence and social injustice is not through more violence but taking the words of Jesus from teh Sermon on the Mount seriously enough [...]

     ‘Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel’ (Luke 2:25)
     ‘the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”  And [...]

Sara and I have found a new favourite show. Flash Forward that is on ABC on Thursday Nights has become our new ‘24′ or ‘Prison Break (me anyways)’.  If you don’t know the story–everyone in the world had a blackout experience where they saw their future in 6 months time.
Well, some are trying to get [...]

     I asked the question the other night in class: why is it so tempting to always hit back when someone does something to us first?  (I jokingly said I never struggle with this so I wanted to know from them)
     Something has happened to us where we have given ourselves the excuse to not [...]

There is a court case in Windsor concerning a mid 30’s woman who was severely assaulted by a man in his mid 30’s in a female washroom in a public place.
As the case is nearing the end and the judge is about to issue the verdict the man has asked for a reduced sentence because [...]

There is a lot of talk about Michael Jackson’s untimely death that the news seems to forget (though it is hard to overlook the one for the other) that another major star died tragically at the age of 62.
But, what was Farrah?
Was she a sex symbol?  A serious actress (she portrayed marvelously a character in [...]