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There’s nothing quite like a good mystery. It’s my favourite genre of movie and book. A lot of things mystify me: • How can my wife find anything in her purse? • Why do we call it a pair of pants? There’s just one. • What causes déjà vu? • Why isn’t chocolate considered a…

Now, I know that Valentine’s Day is a Hallmark holiday. Chocolatiers and florists make a killing February 14. Still, I like this yearly reminder to go above and beyond the call of duty in expressing our love. And so, this Valentine’s Day, I’m gonna dish out some cash on chocolates and flowers and take my…

A lady said to her husband, “There are some things money can’t buy. Don’t bother getting me any of those things.” Well it’s true, money can buy you companions but not friends, and pills but not health. Money can’t buy happiness and it can’t buy what it used to. But it can buy you the…

Each year as Christmas draws near, we ask the brightest people we know to put together a Christmas quiz. They always say no, so we do it ourselves. Today we present the fifth installment of our popular Laugh Again Christmas Quiz. Scroll down to the bottom for the answers.   1. The third verse of…

When I was a kid, I loved snow. It meant snow forts, snowballs, snowmen and plunging down steep hills on rickety toboggans. Being the youngest, I often found myself beneath piles of it with my brothers perched on top. If my sister didn’t dig me out, I might still be there. But I loved every…

There are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and that one day you will have a drawer with too many pens in it. Oh, and there’s the certainty that someone is currently conducting a study on happiness. The latest research claims that there are three tips you need to “find more joy in your life.”…

Last week we took our friends Gord and Liz to a fine restaurant to celebrate Liz’s graduation from nursing school. I ordered some chicken baked in mushrooms and hemmed in by veggies. The waitress brought it and waited as we prayed, as we thanked God for our many blessings. When she returned to ask how…

Now that my daughter Rachael has become a mother, I’m afraid she’s going systematically crazy from debilitating exhaustion. Now when I was a child, my mother left me outdoors for hours where I could eat dirt and bugs. We ate hot dogs and if we dropped one on the floor mom said, “Eat it. In…

As a child, I loved lying on my back on warm summer nights and looking up at the stars. The night sky is a perfect canvas for a child’s imagination to scribble on; it sure beats an iPad. Were the stars looking back at me? Could I reach them in a hot air balloon? I…