Truth and contradiction
Yesterday, my sister (who is no longer pregnant), my new nephew, my niece, my brother-in-law, and I went grocery shopping. This was my sister's...
My Sister’s Keeper: A Pro-Life Book Review
It all begins with a bruise: a little clover-shaped bruise. While bathing her two-year-old daughter, Sarah finds a trail of little brown bruises running...
Feelings: it’s simple.
In many ways we live in an age of “feeling.” If we feel something—anything—we show it, talk about it, dissect it, and take it...
The perfect relationship
Anybody heard of Pinterest? If you haven’t, count your lucky stars because you’ve just "gained" back hours and hours of time to waste on...
Life is not a fairy tale.
When a person gets everything that she wants, when she has all the things that she thinks she needs, and life is being wonderfully...
The Poor Souls
"It ain't right, and I'm sick and tired of what ain't right," says a character in the western Silverado. That's how I feel about...
How fleas brought me closer to God
It’s been a ridiculously bad year. For fleas, that is. Something about the summer being so hot with little rain, blah blah blah, I...
Oh…bama
Last night a well known—and well loved—celebrity retweeted the comment, "The two rape guys lost."
I can accept that people have different political views. Even when...
How to fix a phone line
Running a phone line is, according to every tutorial on the internet, one of the simplest, most basic, and least dangerous wiring tasks that...
The memorial of our Redemption
Remembrance Day is this Sunday. It is the most important annual memorial celebration in our national life as Canadians, and a day we share...