You can take the kid out of Alberta, but you can’t take Alberta out of the kid!! It’s one thing to be leaderless; it’s another to be seriously divided. Alas it appears that Trump won’t have to do anything; we will do it to ourselves. I was around for the National Energy Program and had […]

Today’s Theme: Sometimes going forward means falling backward… Lately I have been noticing an interesting shift in direction(s) for some things in my life. At first it was somewhat subtle and even trifling, but as we move into 2025 a perceptible change is definitely there. The most noticeable sense of regression, is occurring on the […]

With all the new emphasis on helping people with mental wellness, where were his friends? I’ve read a number of pieces extolling the virtues of our interim Prime Minister. People say what a nice guy he was, how he was just a good Canadian, how he was so much better than that Pierre guy… And […]

A refreshingly new and obtuse idea… Today’s Theme: Oh boy, here’s my chance… I will have more to say later but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to congratulate the Liberal Party of Canada for their stringent membership rules for the upcoming leadership race. I didn’t fully comprehend their earlier change of membership rules until […]

Finally some seriously good news… A longtime friend and colleague knows I do not spend time on Facebook, primarily due to security concerns for all the student data that I have on my computers. Therefore when they came across an interesting commentary about my age, they decided to share it with me. And guess what? […]

HAPPY NEW YEAR… It’s a New Year… My daughter has come up with an excellent alternative to setting out New Year’s Resolutions. She simply develops a list of ideas, people and things that she hopes to deal positively with in the year ahead. After some pondering, I wondered if that approach might work for me […]

Today’s Theme: Another year is ending… No Chapter today, just a simple appreciation of a most interesting year coming to a close. 2024 has been remarkable in many ways – end of my time in the pulpit, journeys through past pastoral charges and discovering half of them all but gone, finding I can still ski […]

Skiing is back on… For the first time in recent memory, good skiing started early in December. We have already a better base of snow that we had at the end of January last season. Here are the interim results as we approach New Year’s Eve: Just a reminder about the codes/terms:Days = the number […]

The opportunity is NOW… He’s got it backwards… Since none of our political leaders or even economic ones are willing to take a stand on this issue, I guess it is up to me –> so here goes. I refer to the constant blather about Canada becoming the 51st U.S. State. Since Canada is the […]

Today’s Theme: It’s time to get going (again)… So, there are upsides and downsides to this entire business of reaching eighty [80]. Your reaction to some of my musings reminded me of one thing – in this existential world, the really important approach to any age or similar defining moment, is simply to move forward… […]