If you’ve read the little snippet of a bio that sits at the bottom of my blogs, you’ll already know that trees are important to

Winning is wonderful. When we work hard, do our very best at a competitive thing, the thing goes really well, and we are the winners,

A few days ago I was driving home from an errand, and I was listening to a program on CBC Radio called Q. The host,

As an adolescent in the early ‘90s, the then-popular phrase “on fire for God” totally applied to me. I was a good, godly kid. I

When I was in between my final two years of university, a lovely Korean student named Sunyoung sublet one of the rooms in our creaky

Every now and then, we get to be a part of bright, mysterious moments where unexpected life-threads twist together. I recently had an afternoon that

When my oldest daughter Elena was a wee tot, there were parts of her bedtime routine that took a bit of wheedling and cajoling –

I was in the midst of a good old-fashioned clean-out of the kitchen cupboards when I found an odd stash that made me pause with

I’ve been feeling a little burnt out in my faith lately.  In many ways, Lent seemed like an acceptable season to feel a bit spiritually