by Emil Rem | Jan 30, 2025 | Analects
Photo Credit—Argosy Bookstore, New York City The Argosy Book Store on 59th Street in New York reeled me in, not with a siren call but with the only book title that would have drawn me like iron filings to a magnet—Hyman Kaplan by Leonard Q. Ross, exhibited in its...
by Emil Rem | Jan 23, 2025 | Analects
Calgary was booming with oil. On my arrival, I bumped into fellow immigrant accountants all in their mid-twenties—all Ismaili Muslims educated in England like me. In the evenings they disappeared to pray at their mosque. “Why don’t you join us. After all, you’re one...
by Emil Rem | Jan 17, 2025 | Analects
Recently, we convened a team meeting to launch my next book. “I would like to publish my collected analects (blog posts). Each would be headed by a coloured photo.” Ida immediately piped up with “You can’t do that. It’s too expensive to use colour. It runs contrary to...
by Emil Rem | Jan 17, 2025 | Analects
My first assignment in London, as an accountant, was the audit of Regions Beyond Missionary Union. The Methodist Centre comprised a large, marbled mausoleum of a building. There, I was introduced to Janice, the head accountant. She seemed to have stepped out of an...
by Emil Rem | Jan 2, 2025 | Analects
As we roll into 2025, those extrapolating the past year—Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine, a new US president, countless deaths through forced migrations—may wonder if Hope exists. A 99-year-old war veteran, painfully pushing his walker round and round his garden every day to...
