Have you made your New Year’s resolution? Mine’s is to help all my friends gain twenty pounds, so I’ll look slimmer. And I decided to read more this year, so I put the subtitles on my TV. New Year’s Day is the accepted time to make our regular annual good resolutions; now, a week later we can begin paving hell…
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I really didn’t feel like going to church this morning. I tried to negotiate with God and decided to flip a coin. For tails, I’d go back to bed; for heads, I’d watch the telly; I’d go to church if the coin landed on its edge. I tossed the coin up in the air and it landed into a small…
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Weasel, worm, sloth, slug, vulture, snake, pig, rat, dog, cow, chicken, fish, shark, monkey, wolf, dinosaur… That’s just a tiny selection of animals used to describe people. We use them to express our tender affection towards those we love or to express our dislike of others. Sometimes we use such phrases to vent our frustration or to clearly show our…
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After a long illness, Moira arrived at the Gates of Heaven. While she was waiting for St Peter to greet her, she peeked through the Gates. She saw a beautiful banquet table. Sitting all around were her parents and all the other people she had loved and who had died before her. They saw her and began calling greetings to…
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‘Gott mit uns’ – ‘God is with us’ was reportedly inscribed on the belts of the German soldiers invading Poland in 1939, according to my late grandmother’s stories. The genocidal occupation followed, highlighted by one of the most infamous death camps in Oswiecim, better known by its German name Auschwitz. The ‘Gott mit uns’ ideology comes to my mind when…