Healthy And Simple

I have a wonderful nephew who has just turned 3, so we went to his fabulous birthday party on Saturday! He is such fun, so alive so excited about his birthday! He just started pre-school and loves it. Life is good.
He was just getting over a cold which was the third one […]

Two men are having breakfast and one says to the other “Have you ever noticed, when you drop a piece of buttered toast it always lands butter side down?” The second man says “No, but I bet it just seems that way because it’s so messy to clean up.” So the first man bets him […]

The economy is tanking! The housing market is heading south and we are left feeling powerless to do anything to change the tide. Our communities are in trouble. You may feel like you can’t make a difference unless you take a stand and run for office, become an activist or give all […]

Three engineering students are sitting around chatting about religion and the nature of God based on the design of the human body. The first one says “God must be a mechanical engineer. Look at all the joints on the body. It’s amazing.” The second one says “That’s interesting but I think God must have been […]

I recently started doing yoga. I don’t like it very much. It’s hard work, very hard work. After a lifetime of activities like soccer, and running and squash and kickboxing - all things that compress muscles and joints - my body is not happy being stretched out. It feels wrong.
Not only does my body not […]

It was early Fall and the members of the tribe came up to their new chief and asked him what the winter was going to be like because they needed to know how much firewood to gather. The chief had grown up in town and didn’t know anything about ancient ways of predicting winter so […]

A few days ago we were robbed, burgled I suppose would be the more technically accurate way of describing it, but somehow it felt more personal than that. Someone came into our home, took things that belonged to us, and left.
They were very nice, as burglars go. They didn’t cause any damage or leave the […]

Moses, Jesus and a bearded old man are playing golf. Moses hits his drive long and it is heading towards a pond. So Moses raises his staff, the waters of the pond part, and the ball rolls through to the other side.
Then Jesus plays his shot. He also hits it long towards the pond, but […]

Whenever there is a problem at home my mum always responds in the same way, saying “I’ll put the kettle on”. There is no problem too great that it cannot be cured by a nice cup of tea. Now, I thought it was just my dear old Irish mother who was the only one who […]

So, a woman goes in to see the doctor and he says I have some bad news for you. {ok, this bit is a joke but there is a point to it} “you have a terminal disease and have only six months to live.” The woman is shocked and says “Oh no, what should I […]