a collection of short literary or philosophical extracts
Not all ideas fit neatly into the pages of a book. When I see, hear or read something that moves me—a news story, a snippet of conversation, a musical phrase, a storyline or cityscape—I capture the thoughts it provokes by jotting them down. From art and sports—whether Wimbledon or the World Cup—to politics, love and war, all topics have the potential to spark my imagination.
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Delta West Academy took charge of our two boys from Grades 1 to 12. In their early years, the boys' greatest joy was the end of each school day when they could romp on the jungle gym and playground...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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Emil Rem, an eccentric accountant becomes a writer of eccentric characters, in exotic locales—each chapter taking us on a trip into his fascinating twisted world. Born to a close knit, middle class Muslim East Indian family in Dar-es-Salam, Africa in the 50’s, he is then moved to Maidenhead England at the age of five. The next twenty years are spent shuttling between England and East Africa, wearing a St. Christopher’s cross one minute and attending church, to wearing a green armband and attending Muslim religious classes in Africa the next. Moving to Canada, marrying a woman from the Philippines and having two boys only adds further texture to his stories.
