Dear Steve, For 30 years we’ve prayed that God would provide a wife for you. A strong wife. God has a sense of humour. You’ve married Dallas, a world-record-holding powerlifter,…

We all love surprises. Well, maybe not. At her wedding, a bride got a set of monogrammed towels with the name Mary embroidered on them. “Only trouble is,” she said,…

My dad invented the dad joke. Most mornings I watched him in the mirror as he shaved. “Do you know French fries aren’t cooked in France?” he’d say. “They’re cooked…

Have you ever believed something and then discovered it wasn’t true? Here are far-fetched claims written on insurance forms. “A house hit my car.” “I had been driving for forty…

Grandkids surprise us with their words: “Grandparents are a lady and a man who have no children of their own. They like other peoples’ kids.” “They wear glasses and funny…

I grew up in the home of a bookstore manager. You couldn’t walk four steps without stubbing your toe on something from Charles Spurgeon, Mark Twain or William Aloysius Keane—better…