Opinion

I have a love-hate relationship with May. When I was in high school, it was a month of chaos between dance competitions, studying for finals and preparing for graduation. When I got to university, May 1 was the first day I circled on the calendar.

Have you ever heard the story of a man, who decided to join the orchestra of the emperor of China many years ago? He couldn’t play a note and so every time the orchestra went to play, he would just hold his flute to his lips and pretend to play.

Covy Christmas. Definition; a term created by Covy Moore in relation to those summer months in which many outdoor sports and fun activities are held. See Cowboy Christmas.

Every year about this time, the Mrs. will endeavor to lay a guilt trip on me with respect to assisting her in her efforts to recreate the Garden of Eden. “The experts say that gardening is good stress relief,” she’ll commence.

Last year in a flurry of late nights, my daughter and I both read the Hunger Games Trilogy, a set of three books that describes a 16-year-old teenager’s experience in a post-apocalyptic world.

Being a young adult in the 21st century is a bit of a terrifying prospect. Whenever I tell someone over the age of 50 this, I always get the same reply.

Looks like summer is finally on its way! Everyone naturally feels better with the sun out and the birds chirping. Be sure that you continue to address the areas in your life that may need some change, and don’t just shelf it until the winter.

A Nova Scotia teenager generated no small controversy a couple of weeks ago when he showed up at his high school wearing a T-shirt that boldly declared: “Life is wasted without Jesus.

I recently read the quote of a paragraph out of the children’s book, Tallest of the Smalls. See if this sounds familiar to you... “Perhaps you don’t know about Stiltsville, the village, so strange but so true...

My name is Ashton Faulkner and I am the newest member of the team at the Rocky View Weekly.