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Look up! Look up! Look up! And you'll find love

A Jewish girl staggered through snow and bitter cold to collapse in a corner of a train station. Too weak, she waited for death. She did not know her parents and sister had died in the Holocaust.

Sitting on the edge of time and sipping a tea

Waiter: Tea or coffee, gentlemen? 1st customer: I'll have tea. 2nd customer: Me, too. And be sure the glass is clean. (Waiter exits. Returns) Waiter: Two teas.

Memories are made of this and that

As I write, the global community, at least much of it, is celebrating Mother's Day. My mom is gone now but time has no power to erase the memories I have of her. She was everything a kid, or a teen, a new mother or a proud grandmother could want.

UC Chimes: Real miracle

A week ago, a ferry sank into the ocean off of South Korea and more than three hundred people died or are still missing. People wished and prayed for a miracle to save some passengers in the ship.

Just keep me where the light is and Easter thoughts

In John Mayer's "Gravity" I find some significant after Easter thoughts. "Just keep me where the light is" and other reflections that could "send me to my knees".

Wheatland Senior Centre news

The Wheatland Senior Centre holds weekly activities. The results of the senior centre activities from April 27 to May 3 are: Monday's Bridge play saw first place go to Jim Brown, with second to Basil Holyer, and third place to Jean Janoski.

Learning to say it better

If you ask for buzzwords in today's business world, you'll always hear the terms "networking" and "communication". This weekend I had the pleasure of attending a convention dedicated to both these concepts.

T.C. Douglas the 'Greatest Canadian'

Tommy Douglas. Premier of Saskatchewan. Father of Medicare. And now, the Greatest Canadian.

Ode to a tea towel

Yesterday as I undid the wooden pegs that held you to the clothes line I finally decided that this was the last time you'd know the thrill of flapping in the wind.

Dreaming of love and overcoming inertia

A man was addressing the pastor after the service: "You're in a rut, Reverend. Every time I come here you are preaching about the Resurrection." I woke up Good Friday morning dreaming of love.