Spiritual Directions for the Journey
Posted in A Funny Thing Happened..., Big Questions, Stuff for Wandering on Nov 15th, 2012
My wife and I love each other. I rub her back and she massages my ego. When he who lives in a glass house invites he who is without sin for dinner, bad things can happen. You can’t stop progress, but you can unplug a good chunk of it. A chrysanthemum by any other name [...]
Posted in A Funny Thing Happened..., Big Questions, Stuff for Wandering on Nov 8th, 2012
I want to become a vegetarian, but I’m not sure I can quit eating meat cold turkey. I paid my psychiatrist with a reality check. Do fishermen live in the reel world? You want to know a really, really hugely annoyingly bad habit? Over-exaggeration.
Posted in A Funny Thing Happened..., Parents and Kids on Nov 8th, 2012
Six year old Annie returns home from school and says she had her first family planning lesson at school. Her mother, very interested, asks; “How did it go?” “I died of shame!” she answers. “Sam from over the road, says that the stork brings babies. Sally next door said you can buy babies at the [...]
Posted in 1K Word Pictures, A Funny Thing Happened... on Oct 21st, 2012
Posted in A Funny Thing Happened..., Reflections from Fellow Wanderers on Oct 8th, 2012
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! A solid tradition if there ever was one. In Canada this weekend marks the real end of summer. The first part of fall is often called ‘Indian Summer’ (if you can still use that term?) and it is through the sharing of the thanksgiving turkey that we come together to remember the [...]
Posted in A Funny Thing Happened... on Sep 6th, 2012
Today I started a brand new adventure- teaching in a community college. I will let you know from time to time how this journey is going and perhaps some new ideas we find along the way. It is billed as a Sales and Marketing course, but in reality, it is a class on life since [...]
Posted in A Funny Thing Happened..., Big Questions, Stuff for Wandering on Sep 2nd, 2012
I had the pleasure of attending my mother-in-law’s birthday bash yesterday. As the old saying goes, she is “one in a million”. In fact, even though she was one of 12 children, I believe God broke the mold when he sent Pearl to be in this world. One of the things I noticed is that [...]
Posted in 1K Word Pictures, A Funny Thing Happened..., Stuff for Wandering on Sep 1st, 2012
Posted in 1K Word Pictures, A Funny Thing Happened... on Aug 30th, 2012
Posted in 1K Word Pictures, A Funny Thing Happened... on Aug 18th, 2012
Posted in A Funny Thing Happened... on Aug 13th, 2012
When you are dissatisfied And would like to go back to youth, Think of Algebra.
Posted in 1K Word Pictures, A Funny Thing Happened... on Aug 11th, 2012
Some advice from my friend Mike D:
Posted in A Funny Thing Happened... on Aug 2nd, 2012
An older gentleman was on the operating table awaiting surgery and he insisted that his son, a renowned surgeon, perform the operation. As he was about to get the anesthesia, he asked to speak to his son. ’Yes, Dad, what is it? ‘ ‘Don’t be nervous, son; Do your best and just remember, If it doesn’t [...]
Posted in 1K Word Pictures, A Funny Thing Happened... on Aug 1st, 2012
Posted in A Funny Thing Happened... on Jul 27th, 2012
Before Peggy Sue became engaged, she was quite the beauty, and she didn’t mind letting her boyfriend know it, too: “A lot of men are gonna be totally miserable when I marry,” she told him. “Really?” asked the boyfriend. “And just how many men are you planning to marry?”
