REMINISCING MY YEARS AT THE REZ and the perils of early retirement PART 1 Working full-time in a stressful job was just the recipe for thoughts of early retirement, a “seven-year itch” three times over, especially for one who’s been at it for more than three decades. Even for school teachers, long summer breaks, in my case, meant… 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 »
HOW AND WHY DO WE FALL FOR THESE ABSURDITIES: Amusing and laughable, frivolous, and ludicrous are just some of the characterizations that I share with people who hear about outlandish theories proposed by equally nonsensical people invested in Conspiracy Theories. We will examine the origins and explore why a particular population segment believes them. Early humans understood their… 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 »
BY: EDWIN DE LEON In a rapidly changing world, the dictum: ” Be willing to walk away from things that had succeeded in the past” is more valid than ever before. Unfortunately, many things and practices continue to find a following even when it longer makes sense. The jeepney is one of those symbols of our misplaced tenacity.… Read More »
By Wilma Gonzales Buenaobra The word karma has crept into our everyday vocabulary. Indeed, in its realization, have we come of age? “As you sow, you shall reap,” after all words from the good book: the Bible itself! Is karma truly one-dimensional? Is it immediate pay-back for what deed done here and now? Maybe it is time to… 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 »
PART I BETTY WHITE, dead at 99, just 17 days shy of 100. As of July of 2021, there are 12 822 centenarians in Canada; 80% are women. So one might ask, what’s the big deal then? Betty White was a working actor until the day she died. And not just a bit player either. She did stand-ups,… Read More »