Cape Breton Island
My wife and I just returned from a week of vacation in Nova Scotia. We particularly enjoyed our time on Cape Breton Island traversing the Ceilidh trail and Cabot Trail. Nova Scotia is a proud land with a noble history. Scottish Highlanders, with their distinctive Scottish Gaelic language, were cleared out of the Highlands of…
Continue readingMiracles and Moses
Moses was a man who saw many miracles. Perhaps he is the man who saw more miracles than any other man who has ever lived. If we try to number just how many miracles he experienced it becomes hard to measure. His miraculous salvation from death when all the Israelite males were to be put…
Continue readingThe Tale We’ve Fallen Into
I first started reading J.R.R. Tolkien when I was about 19 years old. I remember one marathon reading session over a Christmas break from school. I really wanted to finish the Lord of the Rings Trilogy before I went back to reading books for school. The words of these books created amazing images in my…
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I have been giving some thought to the implications of the likely “discovery” of the Higgs Boson particle that accounts for the Higgs field. I am sure you have read something about it by now, but if you haven’t, get caught up here.1 Professor Higgs, of the University of Edinburgh (score one more for the…
Continue readingDelicious Things and Wonderful Places
Nora Ephron (May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) was an American filmmaker, director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, playwright, journalist, author, and blogger.1 She passed away earlier this week. Many news feeds have been running quotes from her blog and Twitter feeds. This one surfaced in the Guardian newspaper: “You should eat delicious things while you…
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