Yesterday at the Office: WW II Veterans

Same-Sex Marriage for: The Globe and Mail

Meet Kathy and Elaine...

...they are a same-sex couple who were married in Canada almost 9 years ago and have been together over 36 years. However, Canada's Justice Department's recently decided that thousands of same-sex couples married in Canada since 2004 were no longer legally wed. 

“Well honey, I guess we may not be married after all,” said Kathy to Elaine 

Is same-sex marriage a defamation of the sanctity for marriage? Should we honor same-sex marriages? Is the government's legal stance on this issue an infringement of one's civil liberties? 

Just something to think about. 

Read their story and others here.

Love is...

...on the 25th floor of another upscale high rise being erected in Abu Dhabi, someone paused for a moment to comment on the universal language "LOVE."

Amber Justine...

At 17 I had my baby girl Amber Justine. I was the cliche teenage father, I was just another statistic.

Throughout her life I've struggled time and time again with myself. My role in her life was simply that of a part-time-father.

In search of prosperity, I moved from Virginia, to New Mexico, to Ohio, to Illinois, to South Carolina, to Arizona... and so forth.

All the while I sent photographs, letters, care packages, drawings, poems, basically anything I could use to communicate my love for her. Somehow I hoped that in my absence these objects might embrace her, warm her, nurture her... sustain her.

Today, halfway around the world, I can't help but to think of Amber when my wife Jasmine and our son Levi-Joseph wake from a lazy afternoon. She shuffles the comforter off and "POP" her tummy displays its six months of growth. I wonder, as I often have, what have I missed in my daughter's life?

Having had the opportunity and blessing to be a full-time father to my boy, I completely imagine and know what I have lost. I also know that Amber has been shortchanged.

Despite my shortcomings as a father in her life Amber and I continue to define our relationship on our own terms.

Her compassion and infinite understanding of me is profound....