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Photo Memory of the Week
Posted: 2025 Aug 02
Music of the Week – In Memoriam Edition
Article of the Week
As to why all this has been banished from official memory, it has everything to do with the way postmodern historians, pseudo-left academic activists and a succession of Liberal politicians have shaped the way we are allowed to talk about ourselves. About the way we are instructed to talk about slavery, about racism, immigration and the dynamic role Indigenous people played in building a new world from the late 1700s to well into the 20th century. - Emancipation Day: Against Revisionism, by Terry Glavin
Posted: 2025 Aug 03
Tag Archives: Culture
A Wink and a Nudge
One of a miscellany of short observations from a trip to Scotland. Because it keeps the witches away. The interrupter is three, or so said his grandfather in introducing him to our tour group. As a second son (the three-year-old, … Continue reading
Are You Serious?
One of a miscellany of short observations from a trip to Scotland. Haggis. An inevitability of Scotland according to everyone we know who’s been here before us. And everyone has advice on how to relax and enjoy the inevitable. It’s … Continue reading
Cheap and Good; Good and Cheap
One of a miscellany of short observations from a trip to Scotland. £280. I look again. Yes, that’s what it says. £280. In the last 24 hours I have slept, oh, about 4 hours max. My first meal of this … Continue reading
2 Months & 4 Years
The two-year-old stands impassively before me, struck dumb, perhaps, by my height and pallor. Eager to practice her English, the young woman with her is not so reticent. Continue reading
Rutabagas and Silk
Contemplating the route to an edible rutabaga and wearable worm cocoons, makes me all agog at inventors – their insight, of course, but also their sheer persistence. Continue reading
Downhill Headfirst
Because no one goes downhill headfirst on a cafeteria tray better than Canadians. Continue reading
Deal With It
Girls are weird. It’s almost 30 years ago and the speaker is my then 10-year-old son, immediately and predictably seconded by his 7-year-old brother. Yeah, they’re weird. I move quickly, hoping to choke off this line of thinking, not worrying … Continue reading
Not From Around Here
Where are y’all from? The time is March, 1990; the occasion is so-called spring break, there being nothing in the snowbanks of home that speaks yet of spring. Our questioner is a stereotypically blond and bronzed Pasadenan waitress: after all, … Continue reading