Valentine’s Day

In October of 1977, my friend Reg and I agreed that we would go to the Festival of Gospel Song at Massey Hall. The Songster brigades would be singing and that meant lots of girls our age! I was living on my own – sort of – I was out of my parent’s house but…

Two sons

I was reading a devotional recently (Imperfectly Perfect by David Busic) and found this insight which I thought would make a good seed for life with family. Here’s what David wrote: Why must “a certain man” always have “two sons” (Luke 15:11, KJV)?Why must there be Cain and Abel?Why must there be Isaac and Ishmael?Why…

Thinking of Helen

I might entitle this from one grandmother to another. Here is Wendy – now Grandma to six, making short breads using HER grandmother’s cookie cutters. We got talking about how old these must be. We think they must be at least 70 years old. Wendy has memories of her “Grandma” breaking open the baking things…