Losing Our Common Sense
In April, 18-year-old Carleton university student Nadia Kajouji committed suicide. And last spring, at Virginia Tech, Seung-Hui Cho massacred 32 students before shooting himself....
Fatherhood
In the recently released movie Knocked Up, professional journalist Alison discovers she is pregnant from a drunken one-night stand with loser Ben. She doesn’t...
Things That Confuse Me About the Last Decade
I started this year confused about a lot of things. First, I don’t even know what decade we’re in. Did we just start a...
Mind If I Interrupt?
Knock Knock.
Who’s there?
The Interrupting Sheep.
The Interrupting Sh——
BAAAA!
That joke is guaranteed to cause all five-year-olds to collapse into fits of...
Family Matters
In London, England stands the new Foundling Museum, established to remember that hospital of old where poor pregnant girls would give birth and leave...
A Risky Ride
I hate jerks. That’s probably why I can’t stand roller coasters. The up and down is bad enough, but the sudden jerks when you...
FAMILY VALUES: Following the Plan
Did you follow The Plan? You know the one; our parents drilled it into us. Get an education, get a job, get married, have...
How Times Change
For a thought experiment in this first column of 2009, let’s take a trip down memory lane and see how things have changed in...
When Children Don’t Try
I spent three weeks last summer at a Kenyan orphanage, home to 850 kids from birth to grade 12. A fully-functioning school operates on...
Prepare for the Best
Earlier this summer our family embarked on an adventure to Kenya, where we worked in a children’s home filled with kids whose parents have...
Family Values: Do I See What You See?
I have incredible vision. I can see things that nobody else in my family can. If clean, folded laundry is sitting on the stairs,...
Skipping Stones
If I were to say the words “summer” and “childhood”, what would come to mind? Maybe fishing, or playing by a lazy river, or...
Father Cravings
A century ago, Sigmund Freud posited that women suffered from an envy of a certain part of male anatomy. Personally, I think Freud may...
Dog in this Fight
It seems just when I think I’ve said all I would ever want to say about Belinda Stronach, she pops up in the news...
A Summer I Will Not Forget
If it had been sunny we would have swam and laughed and enjoyed ourselves, but that would have been it. Instead, our camping trip...
