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No single theme grabbed my attention this week, so we’re back to a potpourri of random thoughts.

“You think there’s not a lot goin’ on/But look closer, baby, you’re so wrong…” - from the theme to Canada’s brilliant “Corner Gas” TV show.

According to the National Retail Federation, Americans will spend a record $16 billion on Father’s Day this year.

According to NBC News, a growing number of school districts (especially in rural areas) are experimenting with a four-day week.

Twenty years ago this June, when my father’s youngest sister Gwendol passed away, I glanced over at Dad during the funeral and thought, “He looks as if he has the weight of the world on his shoulders.”

“A woman draws her life from man and gives it back again/And there is love, there is love.” — Noel Paul Stookey (Peter, Paul and Mary).

After I started working at a convenience market during high school, it irked me when the boss stood at the back of the store and presumed to judge my productivity solely by the rhythm of the cash register.

So, thanks to the recent arrival of baby Carter, our niece Emma will be celebrating Mother’s Day as a mother for the first time.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A priest, a rabbi and a minister walk into a polling place - and a comedian gets elected president!

The tragic fire that engulfed Notre Dame Cathedral compels me to write about services that we take for granted, right up until the moment we suddenly need them ourselves.