So, the Princess of Wales has finally popped out of the gopher hole that she's been in.  If you haven't seen the announcement on the news yet, you will (unless you're also in a hole somewhere).  That "major abdominal surgery" was a biggie, apparently, and when they were testing what they took out, they found cancerous remnants.  So, she's going to ( Read more... )

As most of you have read in other posts on my Facebook page, my father-in-law, Joe, passed from this life about 48 hours ago as I start to write this; Sunday, January 21st.  Joe was 80, and had been slowing down considerably over the past while, but with no evidence of strokes until the huge clot landed in his main cerebral artery and took him away ( Read more... )

August 1st, as many of you know, is not a great day for me.  It's the day my father passed, back in 1995.  Hard to believe it's been twenty-seven years since that happened.

August is not a great *month* for me.  On the 2nd, in 1979, my little sister, Heather, died when her heart, with it's unclosed prenatal holes and faulty valve, stopped beating ( Read more... )

One of the exercises in my Intro to Pastoral Care and Counselling course down at TST is role-playing.  Over the course of the semester, we will have conducted four role play scenarios where a number of us are actors in the midst of a situation, three rotate in and out as "spiritual care providers", and the rest (only two or three) observe and make ( Read more... )

The first funeral I ever attended was for my grandfather, Bill Henderson ( Read more... )

Hadn't done a full blog in a while; not sure I've got time for it, but there are a few things that need to get off my chest / out of the box in my head so that I can move on with my day ( Read more... )

The pictures are up on Facebook of a young couple enjoying a vacation together.  They were having a blast, headed up to bush country to drive through the trees and see the beaches, and otherwise have a great time.  There were pictures of them on a ferry, on the rocks at the waterside, smiling and laughing and just enjoying life ( Read more... )

I know this is late, but yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of my grandfather's birth ( Read more... )

My wife was talking with someone who is, shall we say, theologically conservative the other day.  They were discussing Bill C-14, the Physician Assisted Dying bill that is currently awaiting its final reading in the Senate before being either defeated, sent back for more work, or defeated utterly.  Our local MP voted in favour of the bill (he's ( Read more... )

About thirty years ago, Fred Dryer (the guy who played Hunter on the cop show) was in a movie about the Marine Corps.  Two young privates were whitewashing the rocks around the base of the flagpole and were only doing the tops and visible sides.  When GSgt. Burns (Dryer) orders them to paint "both" sides of the rocks, they balk, so he tells them ( Read more... )