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Category Archives: Social Media
Childhood daze
I overheard some high schoolers’ discussions this morning, while we sat at separate tables and ate bagels. One girl began telling her classmates: “My mom told me yesterday there were special elections and that I could vote. Well, everyone there … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Education, Politics, Social Media, Technology, Writing
Tagged DC Council Elections
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Hold your corner
I was riveted to the TV screen on Sunday evening. The Augusta Masters golf tournament was coming to a momentous close. I had just got back home. My legs ached, after standing on a pool deck most of Saturday and … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Human relationships, News, Religion, Social Media, Sports
Tagged Augusta Master, Boston Marathon bombings, British Open Golf
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The physics of new media
My life is in a state of turmoil. I am a ball of confusion. In recent years, I’ve been very happy to embrace many facets of what we term ‘new technology’, in particular, those aspects which affect our communications. However, … Continue reading
Posted in Digital age, Human relationships, Internet, Language, Social Media, Writing
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Lenten Reflections: Forty Things I Really Like And… (Day 33)–What price those peaches?
Markets. What else would warm the cockles of an economist’s heart? I was talking with someone the other day and let slip that I was trained as an economist. “Are you a Keynesian?” he asked. I laughed and replied that … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Digital age, Education, Financial markets, Government, Human relationships, Private enterprise, Public policy, Religion, Service economy, Social Media, Technology, Writing
Tagged Cyrprus, Debt, Lent, Markets
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Lenten Reflections: Forty Things I Really Like And… (Day 30)–Turning negatives into positives
Photography. I was in my early teens when I really became interested in taking photographs. My father came home one day with a Brownie box camera, which he’d picked up from a second hand shop, and I was off and … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Children, Digital age, Human relationships, Internet, Life styles, Religion, Social Media, Technology, Travel, Writing
Tagged Lent, Photography
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Lenten Reflections: Forty Things I Really Like And… (Day 29)–The story corps
Storytelling. I spent a good chunk of yesterday afternoon at my third grader’s school, as it hosted a ‘book building’ event in support of the Horizons program. Naturally, the children were excited to see and hear, Jarrett Krosoczka, a very … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Children, Digital age, Human relationships, Internet, Media, News, Religion, Social Media, Sports, Writing
Tagged Lent
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Lenten Reflections: Forty Things I Really Like And… (Day 22)–Happenstance
The happenstance of happiness. Did you grow up during a time when many things in your lives involved people coming to your neighbourhood to sell? Did you grow up having to go to market regularly; if not to market, then … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Blogging, Caribbean, Children, Digital age, Family, Human relationships, Life styles, Religion, Social Media, Technology, Urban life, Writing
Tagged Happiness, Jamaica, Lent, London
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Sporting leg ends bid for fame
My father told me at a very young age that pain was in the mind–the man was a trained mental nurse, so I believed his words. I tried hard to use my mind to deal with pain–and still do. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Parenting, Social Media, Sports, Uncategorized, Urban life
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Gaming the Olympics
If I try to be generous to American television broadcasting giant, NBC, I would say that, in their packaging of the London 2012 Olympic coverage, they are trying to save us all from undue stress and strain, and to ease … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Economics, Internet, Life styles, Media, Private enterprise, Social Media, Sports, Writing
Tagged NBC, Olympic coverage, Sports
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Rush to judgement?
It may be the curse of my training as a two-handed economist that leads me to see many things in an even-handed way: one the one hand…on the other hand. However, I woke up thinking about Rush Limbaugh! I hastily … Continue reading
Posted in Human relationships, Language, Life styles, Media, News, Politics, Public policy, Social Media, Sports
Tagged Obamacare, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke, Talk radio
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