Building an Awesome Life

First, you plant radishes and pull weeds. You start alone, with four planting beds, a broken down house and guest cottage, an empty chicke...

Not that I'm not going to preach any more sermons, mind you. I've got regular preaching dates that span the entire year at Melville ...

Preached at Melville United Church, August 28, 2016 Scripture: Luke 5:36-39 I was born in August of 1960. The world was changing. The ...

I joined a writer's group in the fall, and every month we have a theme on which we all write. A couple of months ago, the assignment was...

The colours flow from the tube: Cadmium Red Ochre Yellow Burnt Sienna Cobalt Blue The ever-so-descriptive Mars Black The ubiquitous Ti...

Reading: Acts 2 My son David preached yesterday, and his sermon reminded the congregation that the images surrounding Pentecost of "t...

It's finally over. Two years ago (shortly before my son went berserk) my father slid all the way into dementia. He'd been showing ...