Archive for February, 2010

Is He Serious?

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 [...]

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When Forgiveness is All You Got

     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 [...]

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Spouting Off

Homer to Marge: ‘this ticket gives me the right, no, the duty, to make a complete jerk of myself and say whatever I want.’
Sure seems like people everywhere feel they have been given this same ticket!  Nothing really seems to be able to stick to our reputation like when we are very careless with our [...]

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Hyper Parenting

Don’t know if you saw the CBC special the other night about ‘Hyper Parenting and Coddled Kids’ but it was an interesting look at how a generation has come with this new experiment where parents are constantly hovering and kids are being so coddled and how it is affecting them in social circles.
It basically covered [...]

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Facing the Champ

     While most people were probably watching the Grammy’s (and I admit, eventually I got around to it as well) last night I found myself watching the documentary, Facing Ali–where all his great opponents, Frazier, Foreman, Norton, Spinks, Shavers, Chuvalo and others spoke about how it was to face the one that was self-proclaimed, THE [...]

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