This past All Souls Day, I participated in a tradition wherein a group of pilgrims would bike around the lake and stop and pray at the various grave yards. The goal was two fold - obviously to pray for the faithful departed and secondly, to also ask God's protection on all those who use the lake this year. I've been told that every year that the pilgrims make this trek, no one dies on the lake! We started at 1pm at St. Hedwig's graveyard. The weather flipped between sleety

This post is a short anecdote about how logic can be used to unearth fallacies, but can also be used to manipulate.

Why did God create mosquitoes? I personally despise the blood-sucking fiends. And yet ... and yet it was due to these ferocious crazed insects that I have a tale to tell. The story begins, well, two weeks ago. Tristan is turning ten. Thus, it was time to take him out for his double-digit trip with dad. I planned a 3 day backpacking trip in East Algonquin Provincial Park. We packed our bags with great food dehydrated by a loving mother, new gear and a rental car and sped