Category Archives: Social Media

Childhood daze

Posted on April 24, 2013 by

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 →

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Hold your corner

Posted on April 17, 2013 by

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 →

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The physics of new media

Posted on April 2, 2013 by

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 →

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Lenten Reflections: Forty Things I Really Like And… (Day 33)–What price those peaches?

Posted on March 22, 2013 by

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 →

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Lenten Reflections: Forty Things I Really Like And… (Day 30)–Turning negatives into positives

Posted on March 19, 2013 by

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 →

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Lenten Reflections: Forty Things I Really Like And… (Day 29)–The story corps

Posted on March 18, 2013 by

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 →

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Lenten Reflections: Forty Things I Really Like And… (Day 22)–Happenstance

Posted on March 9, 2013 by

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 →

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Sporting leg ends bid for fame

Posted on February 3, 2013 by

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 →

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Gaming the Olympics

Posted on August 4, 2012 by

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 →

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Rush to judgement?

Posted on March 4, 2012 by

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 →

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