"But it moves!" Galileo whispered on his deathbed, testimony from his observations through his telescope. He died, in disgrace, pilloried by the Roman Catholic Church of the time as one whose...
Two nails, that's all it was at first. His skillful hands bent carefully, with the proper tools, those two nails into shape, binding them with close windings of copper wire. Once his metal work...
It was the end of summer camp and I arrived to pick up the belongings of my daughter after four months as Assistant Director. This is the same camp to which I drove one day each week to volunteer as...
I remember travelling that long train ride called "The Polar Express" into the wilds of Northern Ontario ending at Moosenee. Throughout that seeming endless expanse of boreal forest, I caught...
Imagine the table, low to the floor, diners laying semi-prone around the food on its surface. Friends, all of them, sharing companionship, conversation, laughter and celebration. Such diversity in...
"The last time I tried to commit suicide was two weeks ago." These words dropped from a thirteen year old girl like tear drops falling into a pool of calm water, ripples of affect spreading...
Erwin Schrodinger wondered about the texture of reality. He was a physicist who regularly corresponded with Albert Einstein about quantum mechanics in the 1930s (which is about stuff that is...
Tears welled up in my eyes as I watched the television. It was the beginning of the coverage of the historic Prime Minister's apology to the First Nations peoples for the government-mandated and...
