Dec 20, 20152 min read
I BELIEVE YOU
If you told me, clearly and specifically, that you went to Hawaii to swim with the dolphins and turtles I would say you had swimming or...
Sep 9, 20141 min read
THE PATH LESS TRAVELLED?
Robert Frost did not write: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference....
Apr 28, 20149 min read
AN ARGUMENT AGAINST COMPATIBILITY
As you are aware, virtually everything we take for granted as common knowledge today was at some point prior considered dangerous...
Nov 8, 20133 min read
BELIEFS and HOPES
Just so we’re all on the same page, a “belief” and a “hope” are two very different things that should not be confused. I might hope, for...
Jul 19, 20133 min read
REFLECTIONS
I think I tend to be a bit of a contrarian and skeptic simply because so much of reality is innately counter-intuitive and our built...
Nov 11, 20127 min read
LEST WE REMEMBER
Some say that Remembrance Day is a time when we get to celebrate our freedom, a freedom hard-won by the brave veterans who fought and...
Oct 12, 20115 min read
THE WHOLE CANOEIST
“Body of missing canoeist recovered”, the newspaper headline reads. That can't possibly be what is meant, can it? They didn't find the...
Aug 8, 20112 min read
FOR OUR SINS
First, if you don't believe that Jesus of Nazareth (“King of the Jews”) was the Messiah, or that he awoke from the dead, and that our...
Dec 1, 20093 min read
MY KIND OF ADVENT CALENDAR
1) “Jingle bells” was composed in 1857 as a Thanksgiving song 2) Gift giving at Christmas was banned by the Catholic Church for being a...
Mar 14, 20088 min read
HAVE A LITTLE FAITH
It was the first day of June and the Krauss family had just moved into the neighbourhood. They seemed quite normal – friendly even. After...