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On a recent family trip to New York I had the viewpoint from the rear of the Honda Odyssey. As Grandpa and patriarch of the family I realized it was my job to pray us through a safe journey.

I'm always amazed at how a pile of lumber becomes a monument of usefulness and sometimes, outright beauty.

As I write this article there's an important football game being played. One side has promised to win; the other, to give them a mighty run for their money. Hint: one team will be wearing orange uniforms; the other, green.

"Your money or your life?" "I'm thinking it over." Attributed to comedian Jack Benny. The story goesA traveler is resting in the night shadows when he is approached by a knife wielding man. "Give me all your money!" "I have no money.

From Red Skelton's "The Perfect Marriage" I share these heart-warming thoughts: I take my wife everywhere..... but she keeps finding her way back.We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.

Sometimes the things we take most for granted are nothing short of awe-inspiring. Like flying, for example. I recently experienced that on flights from our coastal home to the interior of British Columbia.

American poet John Greenleaf Whittier once wrote, "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'" He wrote it but I've sure been thinking about it a lot.

Eddie Murphy said after the Pope John Paul II was shot, "Why would you shoot the Pope, he's such a nice man. You must want to go to the head of the line to hell. 'Excuse, me, I don't want to wait. I'm on the Hell Express.

We humans are quite the categorizers and it's a good thing, this business of slotting both the concrete and the abstract into categories.

An American went to Scotland and played golf with a newly acquainted Scottish golfer. After a bad tee shot, he played a "Mulligan" which was an extremely good shot. He then asked the Scot, "What do you call a Mulligan in Scotland?" "We call it 3.