“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 »
“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The shadow knows!” Walter Gibson I lost my wife to stomach cancer two years ago. We didn’t have any children. I loved my wife and our marriage was rock solid. But that missing piece of having an expanded family, of taking care of children and watching them grow… Read More »
“He could only touch here and there, like lightning glancing on the highest peaks of mountains, but which left the deep clefts of valleys, the oceans and the clamoring rivers, in complete and shadowy darkness.” – Taylor Caldwell, The Final Hour (1944). HERE I feel fine being alone, really, here in my room, where no one bothers me,… Read More »
“How would you live your life differently if you could start over, what would you do, who would you be, where would you go, what would you embrace?” – Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop (2020) We need rituals for without them we are lost. One of these rituals is our list of resolutions for the New… Read More »
“I’ve far outlived my usefulness.” Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop (2020). Alone Odd guy I am. Social nature has not spoilt me. I long for quietness, A peaceful music to behold. I’m judged to be different, Bear it with stings and bruises. I grew up not knowing my friends, Family is all I have! The Winding… Read More »