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Legends of Myself 137
But the bureaucracy has a Catch 22 for every Yossarian.
Posted in: autobiography, memoire
Legends of Myself 136
November 2, 2020
Sometimes life needs a laugh track, so you know where you stand.
Posted in: autobiography, memoire
A Plague Diary 12
April 28, 2020
What we are seeing south of the border is truly dismaying. It’s dismaying because of the death toll, 60,000 by tomorrow—and that is almost certainly an underestimate. It is dismaying because of the number of infections of Covid-19—more than a million in the US, and everybody knows that number is also wildly wrong. It is […]
Posted in: Covid-19
A Plague Diary 11
April 20, 2020
I wrote the other day about the success of women leaders during this pandemic. The other side of the story displayed itself only yesterday, the other side being the utter failure of right wing governments. My opinion–and maybe I haven’t said it enough, it’s an important thing to say–is that right wing governments are fundamentally […]
Posted in: Covid-19
A Plague Diary 10
April 14, 2020
Back at the end of the 18th century, the maritime fur trade started in British Columbia, and the traders that came here from England and the US—King-George-men and Boston-men, as we knew them locally—came up against a reality of Northwest Coast cultures, the social power of women. In the journals of the trading captains were […]
Posted in: Covid-19
A Plague Diary 9
April 12, 2020
Every single day feels like waiting. You wait for the numbers to rise, since rising is their only direction. You wait for the numbers to, please, begin to slow. Because numbers aren’t numbers. They are people and families, units of tragedy. You wait for another day, another threat, another horror. It’s hard to do anything […]
Posted in: Covid-19
Grandpa Theo
With Malaika
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Legends of Myself - An Indigenous Childhood
November 4, 2020
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