I am in the final phase of life: retirement. I somehow made it through the initial stages of adolescence and early adulthood, an intense period of learning about yourself and the world around you. It is a period when a person develops individual and communal skills that hopefully lead to …
Volatility
I have been through a number of crises during my professional life. I was hired out of university into my first engineering position when energy prices were at record highs. All my university engineering friends found good jobs. Four years later, oil prices fell and a long energy recession went into …
Giftedness
We own property on Vancouver Island just north of Victoria, the capital city of British Columbia. Our place is a little more than a mile south of Sidney, a small retirement community near the ferry between Vancouver Island and Vancouver. Last November, the royal couple, Harry and Meghan, decided to …
Dualism
Christianity began in a Greco-Roman world. The New Testament was written in Greek, the common language spoken throughout the ancient world. Like English today, Greek was the language of commerce, diplomacy, and scholarship. The Apostle Paul was able to travel and effectively communicate over an …