In the house I grew up in there were invisible beings everywhere. One was my guardian angel; there were various saints (dead holy people); there was Mary, Jesus’s beautiful, pure, perfect mom. It goes without saying that God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost were also around. Early on, these unseen entities were even more amorphous […]
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This article explains how it’s impossible for you to be just an “average” person. It includes a quick, unscientific, fun personality exercise you can do to illustrate you’re anything but average, or a “middler” as I think of it. In fact, it demonstrates your uniqueness. The article begins with my brief personal story about overcoming […]
Dedicated to Josh and Liam Ah, but two hours of pushing broomBuys an eight by 12 four-bit roomI’m a man of means, by no meansKing of the road. From “King of the Road”, sung by Roger Miller In 1965, when Roger Miller sang “King of the Road”, specifically the bit about how “two hours of […]
We Ontarians have the strictest Covid regulations in all of North America, our Premier recently announced. Was this a point of pride for his government? For me, it was the straw that broke my camel’s back. I’ve been thinking a lot about restrictions since being drenched in the first Covid wave, and now immersed in […]
What if Lake Huron was to take the U.S. and Canadian federal governments to court for criminal negligence causing death of its biodiversity? Far fetched? Less far fetched than it used to be. In early 2021, a river—the Magpie River in the Cote-Nord Region of Quebec—was granted legal personhood status by a regional municipal government […]
Ahas!—those sometimes little, sometimes big jolts of surprise, realization, and joy that come with a new discovery—I gotta love em! I had an aha! the other day in the moment of realizing that having ahas! is one of the things I most enjoy in life. Experiencing them is a core value for me, right up […]
I recently watched a thought-provoking 2020 TED Talk called “The Promise of Quantum Computers”. The speaker, Matt Langione, a marketer of research-intensive, deep tech innovations, said that to believe we need faster, bigger computers to address the myriad of global challenges that we face “we need to first believe that our problems are, indeed, computational […]
In November 2020—as the second Covid wave was swelling in Canada—I had an enlightening phone conversation with my sister who expressed keen interest in “The Great Reset”. I had to admit at the time I was only passingly familiar with the term, but quickly came to learn either (A) it’s a conspiratorial, globalist plot for […]
How is it that a single sentence in a book about a group of dogs granted human consciousness and language by a couple of gods can bring a grown woman to tears? More precisely, how can something so far-fetched lead me into an existential moment? One moment I was unsuspectingly relaxing in my bubble bath, […]
I swear it was Sudoku that held me together mentally and emotionally at a time when I was incredibly fragile. Literally, it saved my sanity. And it continues to be an oasis of tranquility for me, especially when times are tough. But before I get into that, I have to clear up a misconception. I’ve […]
