I have always been interested in politics – well, more world affairs than politics per se, but political awareness has always been part of my consciousness. My parents, though not party members, were strong supporters of the New Democratic Party. I distinctly remember my mother heaping praise on Howard Pawley our local MLA and the…
Somewhere, in the bottom of a musty box, tucked away in a dark corner of my parent’s house is a coil-bound, Hilroy notebook with a poorly handwritten copy of Desiderata taking up its last two pages. Desiderata is a prose poem I first encountered on a poster, tacked to the cork board wall beside my…
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been reading The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, the first book in Edmund Morris’ three-part biography of the legendary former US president. I’ve been captivated by this character since my visit to the American Museum of Natural History during our recent trip to New York. This book covers…