When Numbers Get Serious
The world at sixes and sevens as The Magic Mountain turns 100 Earl Fowler Maybe because the novel is celebrating its 100th birthday this...
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David Sherman
Mar 246 min read
Portugal: colonizers happily colonized
David Sherman It is a nation of cobblestones, pastels, restaurants, beaches and tourists. And of ancient majesty of tiny winding streets...
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Earl Fowler
Mar 1315 min read
The Ultimate Krappshoot
From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I...
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Earl Fowler
Mar 105 min read
CONTINENTAL DRIFT
The bust was not the kind of thing one sees in a Dutch coffeeshop David Hollander The Canadians in Amsterdam downplayed their love of...
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Earl Fowler
Mar 53 min read
More than just another pretty farce
Bob Morrissey One thing about my dermatologist, Dr. Swalley: I never know what to expect when I come in for an appointment. Every second...
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David Sherman
Mar 25 min read
"Crazy, they call me, sure am crazy ..."
David Sherman What if we’re all crazy? Or most of us. Riddled with personality disorders, neuroses, psychoses. Basket cases in a variety...
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Earl Fowler
Feb 2815 min read
Soul consideration
Earl Fowler Aristotle calculated that it shows up about four months after conception in boys, 90 days in girls. His logic, borrowed from...
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David Sherman
Feb 2410 min read
Remembering a most remarkable man, friend and colleague
David Sherman For about 40 years, give or take a few, Fred and I had lunch. It was immutable. We were former colleagues at what was once...
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Earl Fowler
Feb 219 min read
Infinite jest: The world’s oldest newest joke
Earl Fowler It’s reputed to be the oldest joke in the world. The oldest of which we have a written record, anyhoo, inscribed in cuneiform...
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Earl Fowler
Feb 1211 min read
Lies Our Fathers Told Us
Earl Fowler A Discover magazine article about research suggesting that “T. rex brains brimmed with neurons” sparked my 11 remaining...
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Earl Fowler
Feb 12 min read
Bollywood Nights
Earl Fowler You don’t have to be Indian — or, as in my case, married to one — to have spent untold hours you’ll never get back watching...
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Earl Fowler
Jan 283 min read
Being 80 is a dog and poor knee show, I Shih Tzu not
Bob Morrissey Recently, this old-timer had a very bad day because of two senior moments, one silly and one that could have been...
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David Sherman
Jan 246 min read
I'm a Stoic. I don't give a damn
David Sherman I’m trying to become a Stoic. It’s a practice like Buddhism or being a Canadiens fan. Stoics accept what they can’t change,...
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David Sherman
Jan 226 min read
Avoiding the moyel's unkindest cut
Michael Nerenberg My travel budget can generously be described as economy. I will gladly forgo the option of air for land, the a la carte...
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Earl Fowler
Jan 1818 min read
To be or nought to be
This moment was extraordinary. I was there, motionless, paralyzed, plunged in a horrible ecstasy. But at the heart of this ecstasy,...
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David Sherman
Jan 145 min read
Boeing puts the wild into blue yonder
David Sherman On the rare occasions I fly, I try to fly on a Boeing. Whether my destination is Toronto or Beijing, there’s nothing like a...
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Earl Fowler
Jan 1029 min read
Life without salt
Gerry Klein I was sitting on a park bench in Guatemala City when I spotted a middle-aged American cross the street and enter the square...
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David Sherman
Jan 75 min read
Knee pads preach the word of God
David Sherman One of my neighbours, a man who looks like he spends a lot of time in the sun, if you know what I mean, bought a pink car...
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David Sherman
Jan 44 min read
Let's Talk Turkey Risk Analysis
Hyman Weisbord I have shared my life for the last 20 years with a woman whose career was to worry about what could go wrong. Kate was the...
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Earl Fowler
Jan 27 min read
Do you read me?
Earl Fowler It occurred to me while walking through a mall the other day. A woman of my well-seasoned vintage, give or take a decade,...
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