Hardly anything is more difficult for a man than to give up a pleasure which he has once experienced.” ~ Sigmund Freud As a girl-crazy nineteen-year-old riding a bus from Ryerson in Toronto to my apartment west of the city, I was approached on the sidewalk by another rider who got off the bus right… Continue reading Not Equal
(Something ‘bout a woman) I am Leutenant Günter Weber, with the Grenadiers at Lixouri. I saw your party, and I thought that I would come and introduce myself. Ah, said Carlo, winking, you wanted to come and look at the women. It is no such thing, lied Weber stiffly. Naturally one has seen such things… Continue reading An Attraction Like No Other
June remains the most popular month of the year for weddings. To honour God’s amazing design for gender, marriage and healthy sexuality, I'm reposting an article from two and a half years ago, celebrating gender uniqueness. What better month to do that? Call me crazy, but one of the ways I like to express my… Continue reading Bigger Than Pronouns … Again
At one time, I thought I’d written the book on romance. I packed picnic baskets, composed poetry, cooked meals extracted from Food & Wine magazine, spent hours in greeting card shops, arranged flowers, lit fires, collected bronzes and vintage wines, preferred "chick-flicks" to “blow-‘em-ups", and I knew all the best city vantage points and restaurants.… Continue reading As Time Goes By
Call me crazy, but one of the ways I like to express my thankfulness to God is to write and speak gender-specifically. Not all “gender-inclusive” style books published within the past twenty years agree with my zeal for gender specificity, but that doesn’t dampen my resolve. I prefer words that celebrate the layers of differences… Continue reading Bigger Than Pronouns
Peace in the Home 