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Feb.07.2013
"She is the grandmother of all tigers," nine year-old Jai told my friend P. and me, as we gazed from the top of our elephant upon the gold and black tiger reclining in the tall grass. Jai, son of the Lodge manager, and the two of us had ridden with...
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Mar.10.2011
Andy Stamper (Cliff Potts)and his brother, Hank (Paul Neuman), are loggers. Andy is under water, pinned there by a sudden movement of the logs they are working. This is one of the most tragic and difficult scenes I've seen portrayed in film. It's from SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION, a 1970 flick based on...
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Feb.02.2011
The Moral Dilemma of my Mother's Mink Stole: Earning Our Place in the World My mother’s mink stole and two fur collars, one sable, one white, have been hanging in the back of my closet since she died five years ago. I remember how beautiful she looked to me as a child when she wore her...
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Jan.19.2011
The past months I have done more research than I could ever have imagined and am truly fascinated with the Aztec empire. There is something so primitive yet so amazingly brilliant about them. They were a highly advanced race of people able to make systems of delivering messages, not unlike a...
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Jan.01.2011
Northern Ontario and Canada’s Caribbean are as far apart in reputation as in distance, but they’ve been my home. Seven months of winter or of rain, I made peace with my environment by taking Ortega y Gassett’s advice: “Tell me the landscape in which you live and I will tell you who you are.” The...
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Dec.23.2010
Moonscape to Paradise and Back?
Canada is known for its sea-to-sea-to-sea pristine, jaw-dropping scenery, but one place has been a national joke since World War One: the moonscape around Sudbury, the Nickel Capital. At the opposite end of the country, both geographically and...
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