by Emil Rem | Feb 17, 2026 | Analects
My father died on 1 April 2012. Being an Ismaili Muslim, the community took charge of the entire ceremony at no cost. Discovering that my wife was Filipina, they kindly gave her a “cheat sheet” to memorise all the responses in Arabic for the funeral. What...
by Emil Rem | Feb 12, 2026 | Analects
As a veteran accountant, devoted to a lifetime of combatting errant tax returns, my sincere advice to you is NEVER spend Christmas in South Beach (SoBe to the initiated), Miami, Florida. It was all a ploy to steer The Monster, my younger son, away from the back...
by Emil Rem | Feb 5, 2026 | Analects
In an era when war was romanticized, Wilfred Owen, an Englishman and First World War soldier, became the greatest of poets by denouncing that lie. Owen described the horror he witnessed: “If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace behind the wagon we flung him...
by Emil Rem | Feb 4, 2026 | Analects
Here in Canada, the Land of Oz, we are told that our law-enforcement squads will not pursue a vehicle if doing so could endanger the life of the driver or that of the wider community. Its number plate is recorded. The car is followed at a discreet distance until the...
by Emil Rem | Jan 22, 2026 | Analects
Each evening at 8 p.m., I deposit my mobile phone in the freezer and retire to bed. For the next hour, I read at least one chapter from each of five books. How do I choose them? Something that teaches me. Something that amuses me. Pulp fiction I can race through....
