by Emil Rem | Feb 13, 2025 | Analects
December 8th was Dad’s eighty-second birthday. It was also his elder grandson’s seventeenth. Laura cooked steak—Dad’s favorite. He fussed over his birthday cake and insisted on a dozen photos. Dad had mounted old pictures of Alex and framed them with some poetry from...
by Emil Rem | Feb 6, 2025 | Analects
The next best thing to travelling is to write about it. PHOOEY. “ Wake up, wake up! “ it’s 6.00 a.m. on Paradise Island, Bahamas. It’s Christmas and we’re up at this time of day. Sheesh. We shower in silence, eat our free breakfast buffet – boxed cereals,...
by Emil Rem | Nov 28, 2024 | Analects
My ping-pong, love-hate relationship with the French has spanned the ages. Being East Indian with a Filipino wife, I’ve always felt a sense of prejudice against us. A sense of inferiority projected against us. Having encountered one slight after another, about to give...
