Author: Robin Barlow

I was having a wonderful conversation recently that took me back to my early school days. It’s interesting how a conversation can do that. I was hearing how they were not able to remember too much of what they read. Read more…

Tuesday was THE day. Yes it was. For one group of people in our neighbourhood it was a great day. And that would be the parents and care givers. After two months of trying to think of things for the Read more…

The other day I was able to take care of a problem I had at the house. I plugged something into the extension cord that was plugged into the wall before I was to use the tool. For some reason, Read more…

I sometimes think about weird stuff, like, there is no such thing as total darkness. What we perceive as darkness according to Einstein, is actually the absence of light. See what I mean? There’s a sermon there somewhere. When I Read more…

I have a belief that everyone is creative. Yes, everyone. There isn’t one of you out there that isn’t in some way creative. Some can build a fence, carve wood, put together a garden, make wonderful squares or work on Read more…

A very long time ago I heard my minister tell us that we can see God in all the world around us if we only look nearby. As a young lad at the time I decided to do just that Read more…

Most of you are probably like me. You put something away and for some unknown reason, can never find it again. I’m not saying that I have the ability to have everything in its place and a place for everything. Read more…

Have you ever watched the Canadian tv program, ‘Hello Goodbye’? Because I find myself in a number of airports each year, it intrigued me when I first came across it. Being I’m a people watcher I understood a lot of Read more…

  What’s with all these too early days? I knew sleep would not be coming back any time soon, so at a couple of minutes after four, I decided to make a stab at starting my day. In a flash Read more…