I have been trying to make sense of the new world–the world that would vote for Donald Trump. As an outsider, I am flummoxed. But, I don’t live in the US and can’t fully understand what would make someone vote for an orange megalomaniac with all the signs of a cult leader. Follow the......
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On my bucket list is doing stand-up. I don’t mean as a job–even though that is why my title implies. Just once is all I need to get the checkmark and move on to learning a different language, getting a tattoo, or getting a parrot to say my name. So I enrolled in the Second......
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With all the focus on the US election and the rise of the Donald, I wanted to talk about a rising star for Canada. Not, as the title would suggest, Justin Trudeau, our too-hot-for-leading-the-country Prime Minister, but the Biebs. Justin Bieber. Beliebers’ raison d’etre. Bieber Fever patient zero. Canada’s own hairdo styling, song singing,......
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Here are my random thoughts for today. What are yours? I have never slipped on a banana peel but have been led to believe by TV that it is common. I always wanted to try it but feared it would be a mess to pick up hurt really bad and I would have to explain......
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