YES Day — A Family Comedy With a Message for All
“Yes Day -- you have to see it, Warwick,” he said with unbridled enthusiasm. “It is a great family movie that every family should watch!” His strong recommendation really caught my interest. For one thing, he is married but has no children. Secondly, my friend is a very switched-on, media-savvy guy, who is passionate in his support of fathers and families. https://youtu.be/Y-3Vr8Ut8d0 Yes Day, the movie, is based on a bestselling children’ ...read more
Faith, Chocolate and the Easter Bunny
I can remember as a young 7-year-old boy going to an Easter Egg-rolling Competition in Scotland. You are probably thinking -- what is an Easter egg-rolling competition? Good question! Easter egg-rolling seems to have Viking and Nordic roots. It is a ...read more
When Hope is Gone
When all hope is lost and you are at the end of your rope, whom do you call? Until recently, you could call Eric Trezise (1930-2021), friend of the friendless and hope for the hopeless. Sadly, Eric passed from this life to the next recently, at 91 ye ...read more
In Honour of Ps Eric Trezise (1930-2021) – Life Spent in Service of Others
Editor’s Note: I worked closely at times over the last few decades with Ps Eric Trezise. He was the equivalent of an army chaplain in Vietnam and spent his life in service of others. More importantly, in service of his Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. ...read more
Man Scripts: How to Never Get in Trouble with Her Again
Elbert Hubbard said, “Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.” Victor Borge said, “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” Comedian and counsellor JP Sears put the above advice into practice in his brilliant ...read more
Dad with a Plan: the Answer to Apathy
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings. The above quote is from Helen Keller, which makes it all the more pertinent. Helen Keller was both deaf and blind, but somehow ...read more
Happy International Women’s Day
Benjamin Franklin said, “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” That is the case between men and women today. We have a choice. We either end the Gender War, or lose our unique identity as men and women ...read more
What is a Dad? No Pain, No Gain
What is a Dad? The poem below says it all: A dad is someone who wants to catch you before you fall but instead picks you up, brushes you off, and lets you try again. A dad is someone who wants to keep you from making mistakes but instead lets you fin ...read more