The World, The News & My Opinions On Stuff (for what it’s worth)
You're wrong! I'm right!
I will not stand and fight all night. I will not shout, YOU’RE WRONG, I’M RIGHT! A few years ago, my Best Beloved and I had an argument. It was a real corker, a rip snorter. Tears were shed and doors were slammed and some very unhappy things were said. My Best Beloved had, some…
Read Morethe Truth has a Price
I am most grateful to the Globe & Mail for publishing my essay, THE TRUTH HAS A PRICE, wherein I discuss the responsibilities facing writers and how memory and the truth may be far more fluid things than they appear. You can read it here.
Read MoreSometimes you have to raise your voice…
A while ago someone said to me that she’s “had it with the whole gay thing.” The woman who said this is one of the nicest people I know, willing to go out of her way to help anyone, anytime, and even when we talk about things about which we disagree, she is ever gentle…
Read MoreCivility, please come back
I was in a meeting this morning when the fellow leading the meeting said, “Now we’re in Princeton, so of course there are a lot of Really Important People here today, and no doubt they’ll be getting Really Important Phone Calls, you know, conversations that could not possibly wait an hour until this meeting’s over.…
Read MoreA prayer for the children of Gaza
Like many of you, my Best Beloved and I have spent considerable hours since the recent war between Israel and Gaza broke out watching the news, talking and praying for all innocent victims. Like you, we grieve and weep at the horror, the insanity, the heart-breaking sense of deja-vu. It seems at moments that the…
Read MoreTwo Kinds of People
I have a murky and confusing ethnic background. I was raised by folks of English and Scottish heritage, but they were not my biological parents. My biological parents are first generation Irish on one side and a mix of English, First Nations Canadian and probably some French, on the other. Banc-de-Pêche-de-Paspébiac, where my ancestor James…
Read MoreMumbai and Misfits
Sparkle Hayter is a terrific writer (the hilarious Robin Hudson murder mysteries) and comedian, who now lives in Mumbai. She has done so for a couple of years now, working in Bollywood. She seems to love living there, as she has loved living in Tokyo, The Chelsea Hotel (NYC), and in an art squat in…
Read MoreBooooo….. and thank you, please!
A couple of years ago I got really grumpy about Halloween. For years I’d lived in places where Halloween wasn’t observed, and I rather missed the good old days when I’d get upwards of a hundred wee ghouls and princesses and ghosts and hobos at my door. Now, back in North America, living in the…
Read MorePro-Life vs Pro-Birth
Okay, I promised myself I wouldn’t write about politics. (Isn’t writing about faith occasionally dangerous enough?) However, I’m fuming. Really fuming. So here goes. I don’t care that John McCain’s choice for running (soul) mate hunts moose. Some of my best friends hunt moose (First Nations people think about these things differently.) I don’t care…
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