“Antsy for adventure, I consider other ways to transport myself. I settle on a tried-and-true escape hatch, accessible to anyone with an armchair: reading.” – Melanie D.G. Kaplan, “Find your literary getaway.” Toronto Star, April 25, 2020. “Reading is…going somewhere without ever taking a train or ship, an unveiling of new, incredible worlds. It’s living a life you… Read More »
“There are lots of things that do happen in life and lots that could, but you’re just left waiting for them. It seemed to me that more things I wanted were coming very slowly, and when they did happen it wasn’t the way I’d wanted and planned; they’d all taken too long, as if to annoy me, and… Read More »
“Lebensraum… is impossible without invading other countries or attacking other people’s possessions. Further successes can no longer be attained without shedding of blood. It is a question of expanding our living space…” – Hitler. “When at last the cat woke, the bunny asked her friend, who was much older, ‘Where do we go when we die?’ The cat… Read More »
“Sunny day…life’s so gay/Then suddenly…it goes away/Without a warning, lightning strikes/I’m heading for another lonely night/Cause I always get caught in the rain/It seems my heart stays in pain.” – Lyrics from the song, I Always Get Caught in the Rain, sang by Dionne Warwick. The Philippines, because of its unfortunate geographic location (referred to as the typhoon… Read More »
“Ah, my child, no one is listening to you, there is no use in crying. You will soon learn that you’re alone in this world! You too will be afraid…” – Marie-Claire Blais, A Season in the Life of Emmanuel (1939). “The sun’ll come out tomorrow/So you gotta hang on ‘til tomorrow/Come what may.” – Tomorrow from the… Read More »
“From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink – greetings!” – George Orwell, 1984. “Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.” The quotation was from a line in George Orwell’s novel 1984, the same book as… Read More »
Just shoot that darn ball will ‘ya “Shooting, obviously, is integral to the mission of any basketball team. You can’t score and can’t win without getting the ball in the basket.” – Nick Nurse, Rapture (2020) When I was growing up, basketball was the only thing that mattered. It occupied all of my being. Not a day was… Read More »
A Life Profiled: Beverly McLachlin “Perhaps, despite the lack of real-world examples, a woman could make a success of law. Maybe it would be a satisfying life – a life that applied abstract principle, the stuff of philosophy, to the concrete problems of people’s lives.” – Beverly McLachlin, Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law… Read More »
There’s so much pain because of Putin “The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.” – Adolf Hitler. “And I can see no reason why anyone should suppose that in the future the same motifs already heard will not be sounding still…put to… Read More »
“Through the years and more than a few disappointments, trials, and errors, I have come to see gender-based violence as the literal and figurative foot on women’s necks.” – Anita Hill, Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence. “Please help me mend my broken heart and let me live again.” – Bee Gees By Rey Moreno I… Read More »