Guest Author, Ilona Martonfi, shares a poem about domestic violence, safe houses and the ability women have to change their lives.
Big Ego Chases American Dream: A Review of “The Pursuit of Happyness”
The DVD of this film was given to us as a gift by a departing homestay student; it was one of several movies he gave us, all of which he had seen and loved, and which he thought we would enjoy as well. The very large difference in age and character between us should have […]
The Piano
The day we unloaded it from our horse trailer was the day I knew I loved it. It was a deep brown with many scratches and nicks; you could tell it had been well-loved.
Dr. Eli Franklin Burton And The Electron Microscope
In 1938, Canadian Physicist, Dr. Eli Franklin Burton made a big discovery when he really only wanted to look at something tiny.
“Speaking Out, or, How I Let My Friend Die”
This was written at a very intense moment of self reflection, attributed to friends, as well as personal experience. It is completely true as I see it.
Postscript From A Dance Floor
Guest Author Martha Farley gives us a fun look at the ever romantic dance … the Tango!
Pingyao – Where Banks Were Born
The forerunners of today’s banking industry first emerged in China during the Song Dynasty (960-1279).
Nixon’s Final Humiliation: A Review of “Frost/Nixon”
As with Another Year in 2010, my favourite movie of 2008 was one that was for the most part overlooked, in this case Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon. In 1977 brash and ambitious British talk-show host David Frost (played by Michael Sheen) managed to convince disgraced former president Richard Nixon (Frank Langella) to grant a series of […]
Pingyao – Bank On The Past
China’s early banking history began here, and although accounting and finances can be tedious for some, the Rishengchang Financial House Museum, one of the many financial houses which once operated from Pingyao, is well worth a visit.
The Bloody Road to Boredom: A Review of “Bonnie and Clyde”
Following the release of Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, Bosley Crowther, film critic of the New York Times for 27 years, wrote a short but devastating review. In it he called the movie “a cheap piece of bald-faced slapstick comedy that treats the hideous depredations of that sleazy, moronic pair as though they were as […]
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