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They Did It Right!
About a decade ago, my mother mentioned that the small Baptist church she attends in downtown Ottawa had seen an influx of newcomers whose English was limited to non-existent. She didn’t know much about them. They were Karen people from Myanmar (or Burma as it is sometimes known – the name keeps changing) who had […]
Welcome to Fantasyland
Americans are crazy. Kurt Andersen should know; he’s one of them, though he insists he is sane. Don’t all crazy people say that? Fantasyland, which is published today, is a voyage through American history, a look at how American society reached the point where someone like Donald Trump could be elected as President of the […]
Tracking The Bear
It has been decades since I last read a book on biblical end times prophesy. In that case it was Hal Lindsey’s The Late, Great Planet Earth, which sold millions of copies back in the early 1970s. Russia Rising, from Mark Hitchcock is the latest in what I guess can be described as genre non-fiction. […]
Friends, Partners & Lovers
As I sat on the beach reading this volume I wondered a little if others were noticing and wondering why I was reading a book on marriage. Then I shrugged mentally – after all, why shouldn’t someone who has a good marriage read such a volume? There’s always something to learn. People did notice and […]
PEI Dreams
I have to admit, I was tempted to reject this book when I read the first line. But that would have been silly. So I read the whole thing. Liz Johnson, according to the blurb on the book’s cover, fell in love with Prince Edward Island on her first visit. I guess love is blind, […]
Doing Busy Better
We’re all too busy, or so it seems. The word busy is my go-to when people ask me “How are you?” For I am always busy; there are always tasks that need to be done. At times I feel a little guilty about that. After all, for some people busy seems to be a bad […]
Disruptive Generosity
I’m a city boy, so I was looking forward to reading a book about transforming cities. According to the pre-release information I was given on this one, lives are being transformed through “disruptive generosity.” I wanted to know more. The focus is more on the generosity and the donors than on people whose lives were […]
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