Escalator Problems
When I was little, I was dreadfully afraid of escalators. I thought the little metal teeth at the end of each step would snag...
Searching for God in a shallow grave
A while back I attended a funeral for a non-practicing Catholic. A spiritual-but-not-religious person led a short, non-denominational service replete with twangy songs about...
Dignity for All
In all the debates that are going on in the world, there is, perhaps, none that are so relative as that which surrounds abortion,...
Reed of God
Fanny Price, the heroine in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, makes a striking comment one evening while waiting for a carriage. She says the time...
A breath of fresh air
I wore braces for about four years, after which I immediately had oral surgery to cut the fibres behind my front teeth to prevent...
To Cohabit or Not To Cohabit
At the close of a year online magazines will often post lists of Hollywood’s best and brightest who have married, divorced, reproduced, dated, or...
Isabel and her Sword
I travelled back to Calgary for my Christmas holidays, and one of the most entertaining elements of my two weeks there was spending time...
Double standards: the EU, seals, and abortion
Q. What are the sins that cry to heaven for vengeance? A. ...defrauding laborers of their wages. -Â Quebec Catechism, 1871
On 25 November 2013, the...
Christmas 1856-style
Ever seen American Girl dolls? The dolls are based on characters from different time periods and come with long, detailed stories about where they...
Cutting a Christmas Tree
"Father Christmas throws out with the same gigantic gesture the prig who can only sneer at the Christmas pudding and the snob who can...
