Mana Manna Cometh to Save Us All
Finally, after years of dithering poverty, I did it. I sent off an entire pay cheque, before I could spend it on things much less lasting, to bring Mana Manna, […]
Category Archives: Planet-saving
Duffygate is not about the senate
It’s not about the Senate, this Duffygate brouhaha, although no doubt the Harperium wants us to think so. It’s not about how deceitful and rotten at heart media stars are, […]
The Hubris of Humanism
I’ve called myself a humanist for the last time. Another short and snappy answer will have to be found for that odious question, “Are you religious?” or, worse, “So how […]
Devastating the Garden of Eden
I’m auditing a course on globalization in preparation for writing my dissertation on transformative education—you know, my thing on how a revolutionary approach to functional learning can transform mental capacity […]
Infanticide—We’re Guilty as Charged
My new student, aged twelve, going on seventeen, comes complete with cellphone, a slim thing tucked in close to her bare belly by stretchy pants. If this were regular school […]
Reptiles in the Herpetarium
Another nightmare. Not fair: I didn’t even touch the rose wine served at last night’s business meeting! This one concerned an attempt to escape radiation. For a reason that seemed […]
The Jasper Tree
Today’s going to be a hard day. The 2010 Youth Peace-Poem Competition, an annual project run by the Powell River Live Poets’ Guild, received a suspect poem from a Grade […]
The feeling’s gone, BO
I don’t know where we went wrong but the feeling’s gone and I just can’t get it back. –Gordon Lightfoot The loss of a love always hurts. I have to […]
20 Precepts to Sovereign Womanhood
As my daughter approaches the end of her first quarter-century, I want to pass on what I’ve learned in my first half-century about women’s money, finance and prosperity. As the […]
A serious EOY note
David Parkinson posted another or his thoughtful pieces on slowcoast.ca, and suddenly some of my thoughts over this past week, traveling to and being in Nicaragua, coalesced. David’s article is […]
The Law of Love 