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Unpaid Labour
As I sat down to write a eulogy to my mother who recently passed away, I scratched my head trying to find the many accomplishments
Hooked on the Social Media Drug
I remember when social media sites were first set up. They invited us to join for free, to exchange messages, pictures and other snapshots of
A Self-Directed Literary Tour of Ireland
Someone told me that I would find inspiration to finish my new collection of short stories if I went to Ireland. So I did, spending
Are there Non-Starving Writers?
Are there non-starving writers? Yes, there are. The old cliché of the “starving writer” needs to be dusted off. There are all kinds of writers
Dulling of the Senses to Violence
There used to be a time when the faintest whiff of violence or social disorder would send people into a panic: schools would shut down,
What if Goodreads, Amazon and Facebook went out of business?
Hard to imagine, but what if these behemoths of data went belly up? Sure, a few banks might fail, a few cities go bankrupt, perhaps
Private Prisons & Private Medicine
I was reflecting on these industries that reside south of the border that are constantly threatening to move north like a fleeing refugee, and wondered
Drones for Company
I’m getting ready for when drones will dot the sky and obliterate the little sunshine we have these days. It’s a magical time to be
Mixing Genres in Fiction
I have always felt boxed in by the definition of “genre” when it comes to writing fiction. Why be bound by the rules of a
Hey man, it’s Cayman!
This is a place that has long been on my bucket list, and I finally went. I went with my wife not as a fat-cat
Back In Dubai – Part 2
Off the boat, we took a break at one of the many open-air restaurants that now dot the creek’s boardwalk, running from opposite the Carlton
Back In Dubai – Part 1
In the 30 years since I left Dubai to reside in Canada, I had returned to the emirate only once, eight years ago. But on
Sri Lanka Revisited – part two
An ultra-modern “village in the jungle” (with apologies to Leonard Woolf) is how I would describe the Cinnamon properties (the Lodge and the older Village)
Sri Lanka Revisited – part one
One always runs the risk of upsetting someone when recounting a visit to the old country, especially when viewing it through the eyes of a
When Truth Died and Greed Won
An uneasy silence has fallen upon the land in the wake of the US election. The unexpected has happened (again!) after those lazy, non-voting Brits
Support for Independent Publishers in Canada
(This article was published on the Heritage Canada website on Nov 14th 2016, where it got some attention before being drowned in that tsunami called