1. *I’d tell you what I think, but would you respect me in the morning?* Principle: Speak in the Active Voice. Zechariah 8:16 These are the things you are to do: speak the truth to each other, and render true and sound judgment in your courts. Ephesians 4:25 Therefore, each of you must put off […]
My husband tells me that if I want to be a writer, I should write every day and put it on the Internet, just to get in the habit (not because anyone is actually going to read it–but hope springs eternal). So, after many years of dilly-dallying and trying to decide what to wear, I’m […]
Don’t get me wrong, I love my Grandma Louise, but she turned up at our summer cottage at the worst possible time. My best friend Gail turns seventeen this week and I’m going to miss the party because Gram brought someone “my age” to “spend time with”—aka entertain.
I recently painted a 30 by 60 inch canvas from a photograph of one of my daughters at ‘The Dunes’ in Bouctouche, New Brunswick last summer. She is standing just inside the water’s edge, looking at her feet submerged along the shoreline. What a nice August day it was, sunny but cool and breezy by […]
Canadians encourage the marketplace of ideas, but I think that Christians who wander around the marketplace chatting people up are no longer welcome. An evangelist used to be just another stranger on whom you could slam the door, but soon it may be illegal to even knock. Consider the following stories: August 21, 2006 Calgary […]
CBC got me thinking this morning. I’m sure Sheila Rogers would be happy to know that. In honour of Mother’s Day, Sounds Like Canada examined different aspects of being a housewife in the 21st century, interviewing some minstrel moms who write and perform music for money and sanity, and talked to a producer on her […]
I want to tell you about my kids. Everything they do and say teaches me something. Parenting is the stage of life where there’s barely time to stand still and fart, let alone contemplate the meaning of life, but somehow I manage to glean wisdom from daily experiences, and I wanted to tell you. Maybe […]
