I don’t know how we get on these things. We were talking about the dog. Next thing we’re talking about my manhood.
Did we get the dog fixed? Nobody remembers. The boy thinks yes. The girls say no.
I hereby resolve – No more children, no, not ever Read More »
(The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday, July 19, 2014)
HAMILTON, CANADA ✦ It was in the whirlpool at the Les Chater Y when I was congratulated for My Bride’s recent naming into the Order of Canada. The woman, another early-morning swimmer, had read the news in this publication.
“Let’s face it,” she said. “You’ve had a role to play in this all. Any woman who wins something like this has to be married to a certain sort of man. If Madame Curie hadn’t been married to Pierre, she’d have been forced to be home barefoot, baking bread.”
Being open to life’s surprises Read More »
SANTA FE, N.M. I’m in America’s oldest state capital, in Café Olé, with a sandwich and drink and new hope to never become a moron.
Here for some postgrad studies, I’m also enjoying a recent copy of America’s satirical news tabloid, The Onion.
“Nation’s Morons March on Washington State,” is its banner headline. Thousands of morons, the Onion reports, recently marched in Washington State thinking they were actually in Washington, D.C.
New hope not to become a moron Read More »
As the country’s president seems about to topple, a writer remembers times of living dangerously.
Yemen through the looking glass Read More »
Recently travelling back from Canada to Uganda through London, England – capital of history’s most influential empire – I got some renewed perspective on global leadership and change and how, in politics, there’s nothing like old-fashioned fear to move things along.
Time for US Democrats to fight fire with fire Read More »
Ugandan President Museveni celebrated 20 years in power this year — and he wants another seven . Critics want change.
Defying the ‘African Way’ Read More »
Nowadays you just gotta love the skin you re in no matter what it s made of.
A face only a mother could love Read More »
Maybe Labour Day should be replaced with Bum Day says our resident traveller.
We need a day to ponder Read More »
