Sports, Health & Self-help

Personal Pilgrimage: One Day Soul Journeys for Busy People

As any serious seeker of self-improvement knows, being half-spiritual is like being half-pregnant. You either are spiritual – or are trying to be – or you are not. Half-way measures, such as leaving your soul ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Bringing Your Soul to Work: An Everyday Practice

By Cheryl Peppers and Alan Briskin

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Walking to the Saints: A Little Pilgrimage to France

By Anne McPherson, Tony Urquhart, illus.

To refer to the new books by Anne McPherson and Margaret Visser as “religious titles” is to do them a disservice, especially to readers, like this reviewer, who shy away from overtly Christian material and ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery and Meaning in an Ordinary Church

By Margaret Visser

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Green Grit: The Story of the Saskatchewan Roughriders

By Graham Kelly

If it’s true that losers’ tales make for the best sports stories, Green Grit, Graham Kelly’s history of the floundering fortunes of the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders, ought to have provided readers with a very dramatic ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

On Snooker: The Game and the Characters Who Play It

By Mordecai Richler

The British writer Cyril Connolly warned that “All excursions into journalism, broadcasting, propaganda and writing for the films, however grandiose, are doomed to disappointment. To put our best into these forms is another folly, since ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Shocking Beauty: Thomas Hobbs’ Innovative Garden Vision

By Thomas Hobbs

For those who consider gardening a spectator sport, autumn is the off season. The sweet surprises of spring, the colours that burgeoned then blazed through the summer, are all over now. There’s nothing to look ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help