CHICKENS

I was intrigued with recent Chatham-Kent Council deliberations about the ‘urban chicken’. Concerns about loud roosters, rodents eating chicken feed, containment, and spreading disease made for ample debate. Chickens, or any bird for that matter, give me jitters. They threaten my comfort zone. As a child my fear, my flee or kill response, would reach … Read more

Don’t Listen to Me!

Each Sunday I stand at a pulpit and talk for a long time. (Ask anyone in our church family; they will confirm this.) Why do people sit quietly and listen to what I have to say? Am I more interesting than the other people in the room? Certainly not! I am one of the least … Read more