I was 18 years old the last time my adoptive father hit me. I knew it was coming, because he went to the basement to get the two by four.
I was standing in the bathroom doorway when he swung. I went flying into the far wall.
It is what happened next that amazes me. Something deep [...]

I set off on a journey recently that didn’t end at my expectations. That can be humbling and freeing. If I have the priviledge of taking this journey again, I will go with no goals, I will just go.
“The key to this form of community involves holding a paradox - the paradox of having relationships [...]

A global TV forum hosted in London Thursday will bring together politicans, media and various others in a 90 minute program. Might be interesting.
What would peak my curiousity is the poll that will be conducted in the US looking at how Americans understand their image in the world.
Liberia
The situation in an already torn country are [...]

I fell into a vat of chocolate
I fell into a vat of chocolate
I fell into a vat of chocolate
la dee doo dum, la dee doo dum day.
What did you do when you fell into the chocolate
What did you do when you fell into the chocolate
What did you do when you fell into the chocolate
La dee [...]

In a quick stroll around the neighbourhood a couple of gems caught my eye.
Tim Blair’s piece on his grandmother is sheer gold.
Darryl Dash is celebrating the fact his father-in-law is alive after a serious accident.
Ian McKenzie has some droll thoughts on fathers in the 1900’s and fathers in the 21st century.
Richard Hall has [...]

Mark Bryon looks at the USS Clueless post on the annexation of Canada. It’s always facinating to see how Americans perceive our provincial/federal relationships and our peculiar discontent.
I do agree that Canadians tend to first perceive themselves as not American, but I think we can bring a lot of positives to our identity as a [...]

I made a promise in the days before the war in Iraq
I made a promise during the war in Iraq
With all the defending of position
all the words on blogs
I want to post re-builder voices
Through Such Small Hands I found Fructus Ventris,
and at Fructus Ventris was the soaring first person voice of a re-builder
We can feel [...]

Why in the tarnation this site wound up in my log is a bit like the mystery of spam…..
I suspect it was there in case I was log-sitting. That’s it! If I was log-sitting I’d click on it. Ok. I sort of was. I did.
Wrong country fellas.
Nice try. ar arr arrrrr
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