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A recent post on social media asked the question, who inspired you to learn to cook?  I learned two things from the comments in reply.  A...

Not long ago I had the pleasure of engaging in an online debate about the feasibility of adapting a certain literary work to the screen. ...

In the early 1970’s a Stanford University Psychology professor, Phillip Zimbardo, conducted a now infamous experiment that examined the...

As we usher in the New Year it is once again that time when many of us make promises to ourselves to turn over a new leaf—to remedy past...

We are nearing that time of the year when spirits benign and malevolent tend to make their presence known.  Perhaps you think me Grinch...

In the lead up to the holidays I found myself a little short for time so I have decided that it might be fun to repost the very first...

Regardless of where you stand in the current political divide, and assuming it isn’t at the extreme ends of the spectrum, what sets us...

A friend of mine once quipped that the evening news broadcast went as follows: “ Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Here is the news. ...

Just in time for the annual changing of the clocks, I read an article in my news feed the other day reporting that a school division in...

Most of us are familiar with the epigram that money is the root of all evil but how many know that the expression is a truncated version...

Whether human beings have free will is a question that elicits fierce debate not only in the realm of religious and philosophical...

At the risk of dating myself, think back to 1968 when the Beatles fell under the spell of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and took up...

As a young child I spent a good deal of time wondering how my life might unfold. Like so many children of my generation the adults I...

Story telling is one of those attributes which define us as humans. It is a means we use to convey our myths, our faith, and our...

A recent trip to Athens, Crete and Cycladic islands of Greece had been on my bucket list for some time. As I like to do when travelling I...

I am at that age and stage of life where the question of longevity is pertinent. Although it is a subject that has not been far from my...

Have you ever been to an enchanted place? I’m not talking about some place that was designed to replicate someone’s fantasy, in fact...

There are days, I confess, when I ardently wish that I could experience the world in the ways very young children do, without...

I confess, I am a foodie. Now before you type me as an Instagram foodie, or a NYT recipe foodie, or an aficionado of Asian Fusion Basque...

The title of this post comes from TH White’s book about the legendary King Arthur. I have long been fascinated by the stories concerning...