At some point in my mid-teens it donned on me that I was, in fact, a music nerd. It was probably during my freshman year of high school that I was struck by the realization that not everyone took any money they earned directly to the nearest record store and handed it over in exchange […]

At breakfast yesterday morning Tayah suddenly said, “Did you know that a pigs heart is almost like a human heart?”. Now there’s a picture to carry into the day… As it turned out, there was a context for that info. The day before, Tayah, Tirian and Corinne had been helping out at a transitional school […]

I know I chose to live here (came but for friendship, stayed for love…), but it has been a longish stretch of deep-freeze cold. Conversations about the weather these days seem to be almost uniformly negative, and with the exception of my mechanic I haven’t met very many folks that are loving this. And, as […]

Hello Tablers. Earlier this week I had another one of those conversations that reminded me of just how hard it can be to see past our pre-conceived or learned notions of who God is and where signs pointing to such a Being might be found. In my experience, it is hard work to learn a different […]

Just “down the road” from where I grew up in Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan is the little town of Nipawin. You can take the boy out of the town without taking the town out of the boy, so when I heard overheard a news item yesterday with the word “Nipawin” in it, I turned up the […]