They are just kids, but are becoming household names, at least in Canada. The 2025 World Junior Championship, which began December 26, ends in Ottawa tonight. For the rest of the world, influenced by soccer, this is the U20 men’s hockey championship. We know differently. We use the terms we have always used and the […]
By posting pictures from early November I am avoiding writing about Justin Trudeau, Donald Trump, terrorist attacks, wars, climate change and whatever other chaos has crossed my path in recent days. I think I am trying to ease myself gently into the New Year. Mind you, I’m trying to be more deliberate in my reading […]
What countdown? Do you mean the 17 days until Donald Trump is sworn in as President of the USA? Or is it the two days until the final of the 2025 World Junior Championship? That’s ice hockey for those who don’t know. Canada won’t be in contention for a medal, which means many in my […]
The snow started falling early in the morning. Somehow it seemed a fitting start to a new year. We were not the first ones to go far a walk in the forest to start the year. The new snow already showed the footprints, or more accurately hoof prints, of the deer living in the forest.
Welcome to 2025! If you have a seat belt, it is probably a good idea to fasten it now – it’s going to be a wild ride. There will be joy and sorrow, death and birth, war and peace, natural disasters, triumph and defeat. Just like every year. I’m simultaneously anticipating and dreading what the […]
There’s something about the end of the year that leads us to introspection. It’s only a date, but our culture has made it a marker between two well defined points. 2024 is about to end. 2025 is beginning. How was your 2024? Did it turn out the way you expected it to on December 31 […]
I’ve been writing posts about current politics, then shelving them because I wanted to wait for more information. Time to get some of them off my phone. This one was written at the end of November. It was a bold political move, high risk but with the potential for high reward. Canadian Prime Minister Justin […]
On Fridays during 2024 we have ben looking back at previous posts from the same date. This is the last Friday this year, and I am not sure if we will do that again in 2025 – next year seems so far away. This one is from December 27, 2017. No, I didn’t eat this […]
No angels. No shepherds. No wise men. No manger. No mention of Joseph and Mary. It isn’t your traditional Christmas story. But it is. The Apostle John opens his Gospel with a theological look at the birth of Jesus Christ. I doubt anyone has ever turned it into a Christmas pageant, even though the message […]
My grandson has a job he takes very seriously. During Advent, every time he has visited us he has made a beeline for the Christmas tree and turned on the lights. That there are presents under the tree with his name on them hasn’t sunk in. For him, Christmas isn’t about what he will get […]
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