Photo Memory of the Week
Category Archives: Thinking Broadly
I Know Just How you Feel
Sometimes, life intervenes. I have no new blog this week. Instead, I offer an op-ed piece I had published after the Australia Summer Olympics, but not previously seen in this space. The players may have changed; the game, not so … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Policy, Sports and Exercise, Thinking Broadly
Tagged Attitudes, Sports
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Bee-beep, Bee-beep, Bee-beep
Working in a rental unit’s kitchen (hard to claim “cooking”), my irritation with a different microwave’s timer beeps causes me to consider my own skills as a supervisor. Bee-beep. I look around as the timer sounds off. What was … Continue reading
Anthem Anxiety
A non-standard version of “O Canada” catches me by surprise in Winnipeg, and provokes some more thought about our changed, changing, and changeable lyrics. O Canada! Our home and native land, True patriot love . . . I’m primed to … Continue reading
With Glowing Hearts
A reasoned argument (aka rant) about the lack of gender inclusiveness in our not-very-ancient Canadian national anthem. O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love in all thy sons command. As I worked away, head down, I heard … Continue reading
Degrees of Connection
Blair? I turn, in some surprise. I don’t usually answer to ‘Blair’ but the chatty guy behind me in line has just identified the first name of my nephew-by-marriage. How did two strangers arrive at this point? Thanks for asking.
Mix, Match; Repeat
Two encounters over the space of 20+ years give me food for thought about my relationship with clothing. And how I handle presumptuous comments. You don’t care much about clothes, do you? I turn to look at the well-turned-out guy … Continue reading
Days of Mateus and Macaroni
A little old lady asks where pasta came from, opening a window into a whole world of food diversification in the last 20 years. Where did pasta come from? I’m puzzled. The speaker, a little old white-haired lady I’ve known … Continue reading
The Non-post Post
After 9 straight 10-hour work days, my brain is in overdrive, skittering from the confessional, to AA, to the ShamWow! Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It’s been nine days since my last timesheet. I shake my head — … Continue reading
The Princess & the Hygienist
A real-live princess gives a clinic in working a room and being in the moment; my real-live hygienist gives one in working my mouth and (I hope) being in that moment. Where’s a real-live Buddhist when you want to talk … Continue reading