by Emil Rem | Mar 26, 2026 | Analects
Continued from Part I For a full day we had been isolated on a oversized tugboat ferrying us from Cyprus to Egypt. All we could do was plod around the deck taking pictures of the sea. Finally, our boat anchored in the harbour of Alexandria. At last, we were free. A...
by Emil Rem | Mar 19, 2026 | Analects
When our boys were young, my wife Laura would take them to a park as their daily treat. Being Filipina, other mums and caretakers assumed Laura was a nanny. Canadian mums enquired if Laura could work for them in her spare time. The Filipinas asked where in the...
by Emil Rem | Mar 12, 2026 | Analects
Leonard Q. Ross wrote a series of short stories about Hyman Kaplan. Kaplan was a mid-thirty-year-old Eastern European, an emigrant to New York after the Second World War. During the day, Kaplan worked in a garment factory. In the evening, he attended night school to...
by Emil Rem | Mar 5, 2026 | Analects
Yay! The FIFA World Cup is coming! The FIFA World Cup is coming! Yet I still remember Qatar 2022 and one specific soccer game: the semi-final France v Morocco on Dec. 14. Morocco were the upstarts charging out of the African desert. France, the practiced Ancien...
by Emil Rem | Feb 26, 2026 | Analects
In one way or another, we’re all snobbish. My snobbery revolves around intelligence. Of all my clients, the one I admire most in that category is Garry. Garry understands concepts in a flash. He has an unerring instinct in assessing people. All this has enticed him to...
