Reflections on Bachelorhood (08/20/05 - 0 Comments)
I never had a chance to be a bachelor. I started dating Aileen when I was still a teenager, got engaged at twenty and married at twenty-one. We both lived with our parents until the day we married. We had both lived at home through our college years. Over the past years of our marriage I have only rarely spent a night apart from her. I believe we were apart for almost a week about six years ago, but since then we haven't been apart for more than two nights, and even when she has been away, I've always had to keep the kids. So this week of solitude has been, well, different.
Losing My Religion (08/09/05 - 0 Comments)
It is a mild, grey morning at the cottage. My daughter is still asleep, so I have been unable to dial-up and do my twice-daily email check (that's about all I do when I'm on vacation). So I've been passing the time by looking through directories of old articles. Among these I found the four articles that kick-started this site back in 2002. "Calvinism vs Arminianism" is dated October 10, 2002. "Mother Teresa" is dated October 28. Those articles were posted back when this site was only a repository for family photographs. Almost a year passes before it becomes a blog. A few months later there are articles about the band Evanescence and another examining my own propensity for evil. Those articles were really my first attempts at putting pen to paper, so to speak, and posting public articles. In October of that year I decided to get serious about blogging and haven't missed a day since November 1, 2003.
The Greatest Sinner I Know (07/22/05 - 0 Comments)
I am going to pose a question and ask you to think for a minute or two before answering. Stop for a moment before you continue reading this article and answer this simple question. Who is the worst sinner you know? Chances are that you know hundreds of people. Perhaps a thousand. Think of all those people and ponder which one is the worst sinner of all.
I'll wait.
Further Lessons of Another Recovering Statistics-Addicted Influence Seeker (07/13/05 - 0 Comments)
Joe Carter, of Evangelical Outpost fame, posted an article yesterday entitled "Lessons of a Recovering Statistics-Addicted Influence Seeker." It was a very good article and if you are a blogger or spend a bit of time reading blogs, you would probably enjoy it. Go ahead and give it a read. I'll wait.
Celebrating Canada Day or God's Sovereignty? (07/01/05 - 0 Comments)
Precisely one year ago I wrote a little article called "On Canada Day and Kissing The Mailman." It was a mournful reflection on my lack of desire to celebrate Canada Day (which for you Yanks and other foreigners, is the day we remember Canada's birthday. I'll let you read a version of it I've modified only a little bit:
Today is Canada Day. Supposedly this means that Canadians take a little bit of time on this holiday to be thankful for the country they live in.
