When Two Shall Become One

It has been five thousand one hundred and thirteen days since I walked down the aisle on my father’s arm to take the hand of the man whom I vowed to love till death do us part. I used the calculator to come up with that number, figuring in the fact that we’ve been [...]

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Music of Life

Do you know who Billy Talent is? If you do, you’re one step ahead of me…..in another universe parallel to mine. My musical awareness is still taking a walk around the block of Soft Rock and Seventies music. Billy Talent’s music lives about three decades away in a different time zone. Right [...]

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No Flowers Please

It was a good day today. No heart-shaped cards or flowers or chocolate-covered cherries in candy boxes. No candlelit dinners or romantic music playing in the background. It was perfect.
I don’t know about you, but I do not care for the hype that the commercialization of occasions such as Valentine’s day invites. [...]

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My Father’s Child

The snow continues to fall, silently blanketing the ground. We woke up this morning to about 4 1/2 inches of this white stuff. Schools cancelled classes; the morning commute was slow for all. Altogether, it has been a day for staying put indoors. But my children and I found ourselves heading [...]

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Needed: A Conversion of the Heart

MercatorNet.com’s latest newsletter features an article by Mr. Oskari Juurikkala, a gentleman trained in economics and law, and currently working in mining and finance. It talks mostly about the current global financial situation, so maybe you already know a lot about it from having read the newspaper or Internet news updates on the same. [...]

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Love is Deeds

We have a girls’ cooking club we run from our home once a month. My friend and I started it in December of 2003 with five girls. Tomorrow, we have about 13 girls coming over, between the ages of 8 to 13, and we will be making chocolates. Before we do that, [...]

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