RED SKELTON’S RECIPE : For those of you old enough to remember Red Skelton, I think you will enjoy this. For those of you not old enough you will see what you missed. Either way, his humor was always clean and he was a great entertainer. A re-run of great ‘one liners from the man […]
Is this a kiss to build a dream on, or a curse to end one? Karen Kissane July 9, 2011 Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/is-this-a-kiss-to-build-a-dream-on-or-a-curse-to-end-one-20110708-1h6qm.html#ixzz1RbTaM4hx AT HER civil marriage service, there were moments when the woman about to become Princess Charlene of Monaco looked dazed. A weak smile struggled to turn up the corners of her mouth. […]
WHAT IS A GRANDPARENT? (Taken from papers written by a class of 8-year-olds) Grandparents are a lady and a man who have no little children of their own. They like other people’s. A grandfather is a man & a grandmother is a lady! Grandparents don’t have to do anything except be there when we come […]
As a parent of a 10 year old boy, I have struggled with gift ideas at Christmas since he was very young. I always had grand notions of what I would like to give him, although when he was old enough to start writing lists, it seemed our ideas didn’t align. As a parent, of […]
Mark Mordue December 14, 2010 It would be fair to say that U2’s latest album No Line on the Horizon is the sound of a great band falling to their knees and failing. And that their 360 ° Tour is an attempt to refresh what that album attempted as well as reinforce their position as the […]
Someone has compiled the following list of observations about married life: * A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. * Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed. Women somehow deteriorate during the night. * […]
Church rules on funeral rites and wrongs September 13, 2010 “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him, ¢â‚¬â„¢ ¢â‚¬â„¢ Mark Antony tells the Romans, according to Shakespeare. Today it would probably be the other way round: stacks of eulogies and anecdotes and Caesar ¢â‚¬â„¢s favourite songs ¢â‚¬” Sinatra ¢â‚¬â„¢s My Way, probably ¢â‚¬” followed by a cremation. […]
After 17 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She said, ‘I love you, but I know this other woman loves you and would love to spend some time with you.’ * * * The other woman that my wife wanted me to visit was […]
I’ve just Googled Mixed Orientation Marriages, and found these at the top of their list of sites. Note that most of the articles listed do not have an explicit Christian approach. **** Mixed-orientation marriage From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the more general concept, see Mixed marriage A mixed-orientation marriage is a marriage between a […]
Yesterday (2 July 2010) I put this on to Facebook: Friends: I counsel couples from time to time where one of the partners is gay/lesbian and the other is heterosexual. A hundred complex questions arise in these sessions, but one which I find most difficult to answer is: ‘*Rowland, do you know of any committed […]