I’m not really a cat person. Seriously. I’m a dog person and don’t care much for cats. Bernadette was all cats. She had cats on everything – even her underwe...

In the late Summer of 1978, I was invited to the European Managers Annual Meeting in Paris France. I was the youngest member of a delegation of Product Manag...

The Layman’s Guide to a post-Brexit Britain is the World’s most popular book, after The Bible. It has sold twice as many copies as the third most popular boo...

My sleeping was up to 23 hours a day now. They had promised my new biobed would provide me with continuous, 24-hours per-day sleep, but now, for some strange...

Introduction: All in a Summer’s Day is a short story written by Ray Bradbury in 1954. It has been adapted into a short 30 minute film, which can be seen on Y...

Shame. That’s the only way. I’m not speaking as a bullying expert. I’m speaking as a victim. This is what worked for me in Grade 7 in 1960. My Dad was in the...

"Interviewing Paul" was a follow up blog to "The Fire-Breathing Undergraduate". This blog was originally published in October 2015. When I agreed to do some ...

This is one of my favorite blog postings originally published in October 2015. One of this year’s First Year Undergraduates is a fire-breathing, unicycle-rid...

The following blog was originally published one year ago on on Carleton University's Learning Log website (http://learninglog.carleton.ca/2015/09/my-story-s...

This article was originally published in September 2015 as a blog on the Carleton University Communications Undergraduate Student Society's webpage (https://...

One of my Christmas presents today was this wonderful poem by my niece, Olivia: My First Grey Hair ------------------ Today I found my first grey hair At...

Harry dreaded birthdays. His three, very competitive kids would always try to outdo each other every year first with the card they gave him, then the gift an...

Yesterday was my 60th birthday, and I was fortunate enough to spend it with all my family. They held a big fancy party with all the trimmings. Linda made a h...

Things are usually pretty quite on my late evening shift as I monitor the highly automated system that controls the broadcast of news, music and advertisemen...