Full disclosure, I’m not sure if I want to be a father. That is possibly a controversial, and surely an unpopular thing to say in 2019, but there it is. Real honesty is important in these op-eds, right?
There’s a lot of stress there, with the idea of a mini-you.
I was driving through St. John’s in the rain last Sunday. Down near New Gower Street on my way out of town, I saw people hurrying towards what was the 2019 edition of the Santa Claus parade.
There were whole families headed downtown and sometimes there were moms and dads
Let me relate what I think is an important story about my “Saul on the road to Damascus” conversion moment on matters technological. Like yourself, I had concerns about techno advances in our society and the fact that it is costing jobs. That was until last week.
Circumstances put me
There’s a little card that sits on my bedside table at home, a little cute creation my daughter made for me back when she was about five or six years-old. Glued beneath these neatly printed adorable words; ‘Thanks for raisin’ me!’ is a tiny box of Sun-Maid raisins. Back when
Remember the days when all you had to worry about when you cuddled down to watch a movie with the youngsters was a bit of nudity, a sprinkling of offensive language (nothing they hadn’t heard at home on any given day, truth be told) or a violent scene or two?
I wasn’t really surprised that Don Cherry got himself fired. He self destructed on national television last Saturday night. As soon as I heard the words “you people” in his rant against low Armistice Day poppy sales I knew he was in trouble. “You people love, ya come here, whatever
Full disclosure, the title of this particular column is the same as a spiritual based book and film of the same name. I realized that much after the germ of the idea for this piece had collected enough that there was no turning back. So, no real religious overtones here,
I bought an ornament for our Christmas tree this week. The first of the season. I didn’t mean to. I was out to a “box stores” looking for a hinge but inside the store Christmas had taken over.
The place was filled to the hatches with Christmas stuff although it
“Ye know not the day nor the hour.”
The quote is from the Bible and refers, not to the nights of political long knives but rather, the Second Coming. All that as introduction to the idea that for three of the national leaders of Canada’s political parties the future is
I met an old friend the other day while taking a lunch time stroll along the trail that runs alongside Rennie’s River. While I hadn’t laid eyes on Owen Myers in about seven years, I instantly recognized his smile. We hugged, chatted, got caught up and talked old times. Owen,