Happiness is Overrated

Happiness is Overrated

If I had remained in Melbourne, I would have been happy and that is all I would have been. We were having dinner with a new friend a few evenings ago. A Malaysian, he shared about his time in Melbourne. It was a significant time. He went to university there. He found...
Being Before Doing

Being Before Doing

They could have had a comfortable house in the suburbs. But his office was in the city. If he had a house in the suburbs, the after-work commute would mean that by the time he got home, his children would already be in bed. So he opted to have a home in the city. The...
Don’t Come in Winter

Don’t Come in Winter

In my last email to him, I told him that we were thinking of visiting Toronto, and him, at the end of the year, maybe in December. In his last email to me he warned me about Toronto in December. He said: Yes, it would be fun for your family to come to Toronto for a...
What Happened, Really?

What Happened, Really?

By now the whole world knows of Hilary Clinton’s mistaken claims about her visit to Bosnia. Here is the BBC’s summary of what happened. Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has said she made a mistake in claiming that she came under sniper fire...
More Solid

More Solid

As a child I always thought heaven was extremely boring. You had wings, sure, and that was cool. But you had to wear what looked to me like white hospital gowns, and float on the clouds playing harps. Nothing much happened. It was like some kind of retirement home...