Children of Adoption
Adoption is beautiful. I have a number of friends going through the process right now – from those waiting for notice that they are going to be parents, to those […]
Category Archives: Bar Conversations and Cheap Advice
Distance, Repentance and Embrace
Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations details the maturation of Pip, a young man specially selected by an unknown benefactor to become a “gentleman.” It is easy to read the tale as […]
Are You Connected?
There’s no doubting the power of social networks. Recently I bought something on Amazon, and was surprised by the website’s invitation to me to share news of my purchase with […]
Why Wait?
One Sunday I was waiting for the bus to get to church, when I overheard two men talking at the bus stop: Man 1: “Which bus are we waiting for?” […]
Sleeping with Vampires
As the millionth bus drove past me with an advertisement for the latest installation of the Twilight saga (though this term seems generous as “saga” might usually imply a sustained […]
The Stoopudest Kind of Prejudice
Last weekend, I saw again the lovely kids’ movie, Gnomeo and Juliet, a great retelling of Shakespeare’s best known work. Aside from the lack of “thee and thou”, it pretty […]
Risks worthy of taking?
Would I hold on to the tree branch or to my sliding shorts? Well, before we arrive at the dilemma: only a week ago eight men and I stood with […]
A Barking Dilemma
One of my children is in trouble with the law…. About midnight a few weeks ago, just as I was falling asleep, I awoke with a start as Ziva, our […]
Grateful to be Alive
Dostoyevsky, the renowned 19th century Russian novelist, thought he would die thirty-two years before he actually did. He had been sentenced to death due to his association with a socialist […]
Mother Mary
When I was pregnant with my first child, I was living in Vancouver and managed somehow to get myself around that big city on a bicycle until I reached 36 […]
Wondering Fair 