November 2008

Here’s the thing, Stephen Harper.

November 28, 2008

You know as well as we do that you’ve gotten lucky in the last few years. The Sponsorship Scandal combined with the destructive force of years of internal squabbling between the Chretienites and Martinites left the Liberals a mess. You know this kind of squabbling, Stephen. It’s the same kind of internal bickering that fractured […]

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Memories

November 20, 2008

My cousin Rick, who’s several years older than me, has lots of old photos from 30 or more years ago that he’s been slowly uploding to his Facebook page. I’ve browsed through them several times, always enjoying sinking into the nostalgia, the vague memories they evoke. Remembering my Grandfather’s old pink house that’s long since […]

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The stars became the embers and again, became stars.

November 11, 2008

It was a warm fall evening in Boston. As we walked from our hotel towards Fanueil Hall, I looked around to see if I could recognize anything from our last trip to Boston a year before, or even the trip I’d taken there 15 years ago with old friends. The city, so like my second […]

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What it’s like for a Canadian: An Electionary Fable.

November 5, 2008

It’s as if you had a sister. A sister you loved dearly, with whom you certainly had some disagreements, in fact, there were times when you wanted to throttle her, but who overall you really loved and wanted the best for. And for a long time, your sister has been making really bad choices in […]

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It isn’t about Obama.

November 4, 2008

It’s about You. It’s about millions of people just like You. People who are being inspired. Being engaged. For perhaps the first time in their lives, feeling like they are a part of Something. Something they’ll tell their grandchildren about. Something that will be legendary. Something that will change America, and change the world. And […]

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