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‘Your kind are not welcome here!’
Imagine living in a society where there are certain places that only certain people were welcomed to go!  Unfortunately, for too many of us we don’t have to imagine it because in society there probably are still places where people of certain races, social classes and so many others are [...]

Randy Pausch of Virginia died today at the age of 47.  He leaves his wife and three children to mourn his passing.  Randy died in the same way that millions of others do every day: too soon, too sick and too sad!
What makes Randy’s death so noticeable is probably due to his nickname that is [...]

Where does time fly?  Man oh man, this was supposed to be a daily blog and lately it seems like at best it is a weekly one!  Anyway–the use of one’s time is really important and I wonder how many are like me and just don’t make the best of it?
You ever get so frustrated [...]

Did you watch any of the festivities this past week at Yankee Stadium?
I have been a Yankee fan since the early 80’s when Rickey Henderson was traded to them and said ‘it is everyone’s dream to play for the pinstripers.’
Back then, we had a dry run for quite some time even though we had some [...]

Oh do we have one the last couple of days! 
For the past 2 weeks I have been trading off one of my two older daughters for a corresponding niece and before you get too far–the unruly one is not one of the nieces.
No, unfortunately the unruly child is my youngest.  I don’t know if it [...]

Our church is running it’s second summer kids club beginning tonight.  Instead of the week long VBS’s traditionally run–we decided to do a small scale VBS type program every Wednesday night in July & August.
One of the reasons was to boost the adult class on Wednesday nights and provide something fun for the kids as [...]

We came back late last night and so my wife, oldest daughter, niece and youngest daughter and myself went out to the kennel today to pick up Mylie and bring her home.
The kennel said she did really well for a puppy’s first time away and that she never really cried (even dogs don’t miss us [...]

    We have been enjoying spending time up in Sudbury with my parents and sister’s family.  All the girls (5 in all) get along great together and really spend about 20-22 hours a day together on bad days, 24 hours on good days.
     Spending time with my nephew is always a treat–we laugh so much [...]

Today, my family made a long drive east on the 401 then north on the 400 to Sudbury.  Only 732 kilometres from my door to my parent’s door.  We dropped our puppy off at a kennel for the first time and it felt like we were leaving a kid behind (and no, I really do [...]