A Matter of Royalty

Thur., Mar. 10/22 “MerEEOoow!” Molly screamed adamantly! The zip-top lid of the Pampers can had roused her from royal sleep, an injustice demandIng immediate recompense. A warm scoop of salmon paté with catnip treats on the side, perhaps? “MERerEEOOOoow!” she emphasized drowning out the T.V. newscaster. “Alright, alright,” I responded, enraging her more. Such insolence

Three ‘dos,’ a pause, One ‘don’t’

Wed., Mar. 9/22 Psalm 37, a psalm of David, is one of nine* psalms which, in the Hebrew Bible, are written as acrostic poems. – i.e. each stanza beginning with the next letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Presumably this was done to make memorization of these psalms easier, which suggests their content is of particular

A Cynic’s Alternative

Tue., Mar. 8/22 Do not become cynical…  Cynicism makes your heart hard… it makes you like those to whom you became cynical. Cynicism weighs worthiness. It is essentially a legalism: The cynic measures a pound of kindness for a pound of demonstrated faithfulness, but if the other exhibits self-interest and deceit, the cynic metes out

No Evidence of Absence

Mon., Mar. 7/22 My wife and I have become great fans of the CBC Television detective drama series Murdoch Mysteries. Set in Victorian era Toronto the Sherlock Holmesian detective William Murdoch solves murders by wit and inventions. In one episode (Season 6, Episode 7, “The Ghost of Queen’s Park”) a politician is rumoured to have

Chisanbop!

Thur., Mar. 3/22 “Utilizes Chisanbop” read the clue, and four blank squares stared back at me awaiting my answer. Having never, at least to my knowledge, Chisanbopped, I was somewhat at a loss to define it, so I went on… In time, the intersecting words mArble, ceDar, and hanDler revealed themselves. I added an “S”

Shaky Legs

Thur., Mar. 3/22 The birth of a baby giraffe is most traumatic. After falling some 6 to 8 feet from the mothers womb the 200 lb newborn may rest up to an hour. Mom giraffe nudges and kisses it, then, when she deems the time is right, she kicks it forcefully.* Shocked, the newborn giraffe

Frankenstein is Fiction

Wed., Mar. 2/22 You don’t HAVE a soul; you ARE a soul. You HAVE a body – for now, this body. I’ve written around this insight many times now and regular readers may groan at my taking another run at it. But I find it a truth I simply cannot set down for long. Our

When God plays ‘Hide & Seek’

Tue., Mar. 1/22 Our cat sometimes plays ‘Hide & Seek.’ She will come to us, then when we reach out to give a favorite scratch, she runs away… sometimes she stops a few meters away and looks back at us. She wants us to chase her, and when we do she will run and hide.

“Ads – Shop radiators…” “Shop flowers…” “Shop Jesus???”

Mon., Feb. 28/22 Do any Google search on almost anything and odds are pretty good that the first few hits listed will be Ads, Ads cleverly disguised as information sources. You click, and are met with a promotional onslaught of services and/or products allegedly “for your convenience,” but definitely for someone else’s profit. Turn a

Questions mortals ask

Fri., Feb. 25/22 A 2012 survey by the retailer Littlewoods of 1,000 mothers with children between the ages of 2 and 10 found children ask their mom an average of 228 questions daily! Girls, age 4, ask the most: 390, and boys, age 9, ask the least: 144. Most parents have experienced the unending ‘Why’