A number of years ago I was out for lunch with my sister and brother-in-law. They were telling me about how his brief case was stolen from the back of his vehicle. It was an elaborate and fascinating story. Working for who he worked for at the time, this was a BIG deal. It wasn’t […]
True Masculinity
When I was growing up I lived in a house with parents who had conflicting views on proper conduct. This always created mixed messages. My mother was one who was all about having proper manners. The dinner table was a place where we learned about those manners, but so was any gathering. As a result, […]
Contributions and Expectations
When I was a kid I had severe allergies. This was at a time before allergies were common knowledge (yes…I am that old). Some were to food, but the most deadly ones at the time were to grain dust. Now, growing up in rural Saskatchewan, one would think that you would build up a resistance […]
Playfulness
When I was a teen I was very much into play. I would not play the games of children, but I would play at different things. For example, if I was shopping with my mother in a grocery store I would pull random things off of the shelves and put them in the shopping carts […]
Waving our Flags
It is estimated that in the twentieth century alone, human beings managed to kill more than two hundred million other human beings in wars and through genocide. Human beings seem to be unique among the planet’s organisms in that we harm and kill other humans not just to protect ourselves physically, not just in pursuit […]
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