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, […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]