I had had a bad day in school. I wasn't very old and I had a last name of Batt. That can be a tough combination. One of the other kids had made fun of my last name. I tried not to let it bother me. But it did.I tried to ignore my tormentor, but soon a bunch of other...
THE GROS MORNE CHALLENGE, Part 2 We didn’t know it was an 18.3-kilometer trail; nor had we heard that it was a climb recommended for expert hikers. The only thing we had been told was to allow a minimum of six and a half hours to complete the trek, and since we only...
Lineolated Parakeets. You might not have heard of them before. That's because these birds aren't common today. These birds, which are called Linnies for short, are a little larger than a Budgie, and they have little black lines running all around their bodies. They...
"Keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life." - Jude 1:21Thomas Carlyle's greatest work was undoubtedly his two volumes on the French Revolution. The work is a masterpiece.In 1835, Carlyle loaned, in...
Somebody once asked Winston Churchill what most prepared him to risk political suicide by speaking out against Hitler during the years of appeasement in the mid-1930s, then to lead Great Britain against Nazi Germany. Churchill said it was the time he had to repeat a...
"I give up!" The man shouted. "I can't take it any more! There is nothing left for me."Everyone around him kept on about their business. Some made it a point to get away from him."He's crazy," one man said quietly as he nervously rushed toward the door.The man sat...
The ruthless clang of the telephone shattered the wee morning calm, dragging me from dreamland bliss and hurling me into what was to become a living nightmare. The news brought by the voice on the other end left me numb, void of emotion and pain. I couldn’t cry. I was...