If you asked me what was my favorite quotable line from his speech I would have to say it was the entire speech! http://www.emirates247.com/news/government/khalifa-declares-2016-reading-year-2015-12-05-1.612857
Dec062015
Life
Jan252015
Banned Books Awareness: “The Working Poor”
Banned Books Week, which coincides with the new school year each autumn, is usually a time when scholars, book lovers, and legal analysts discuss how censorship impacts society and education. One would expect those in charge of our schools to hold all aspects of education- especially books- most dear....
Jul192014
Banned Books Awareness: Singapore’s Culture War
Singapore’s National Library Board has been busy as of late- stopping citizens from reading. Books and comics have been on their hit list because they contain same-sex issues in their content. The organization last week withdrew from libraries the books and Tango Makes Three, which has been covered previously,...
Jul012014
Across the Great Divide: “All Good Things…”
This is my final edition of Across the Great Divide. What started in 2009 has become a fun and familiar ride, but the time has come to step off and continue through the amusement park of life and enjoy different things. The editors of Pagan Pages magazine have been...
May242014
Some Gave All, Some Gave More
This Memorial Day weekend I think not only of those who gave all, but those who returned home to us in the flesh yet left so much of themselves and their sanity upon the battlefield. They are the ones whom society has ignored as they continue the battle within...
Feb012014
Across the Great Divide: Paranormal Communication
Humans are quite egocentric when it comes to the physical world and their professed mastery of it. If they cannot hear it, see it, touch it, or understand it then it doesn’t exist or is laughed off as the illogical ramblings of the foolish. A common- and clichéd- axiom...
Jan282014
A Multitude of Drops
Last night I watched Cloud Atlas for the first time. As with any great story, there were lines of dialog that stood out and resonated with me. I just wasn’t aware how prophetic one of those lines would be- which in hindsight is fitting when one considers the central...
Jan262014
Banned Books Awareness: “Thirteen Reasons Why”
When Clay Jensen- a quiet, shy high school student- returns home from school one day to find a package from an anonymous person sitting on his doorstep, he opens it to discover a cassette tape recorded by a girl at his high school who had committed suicide and learns...
Jan202014
Those rare moments when one joke unexpectedly leads to another
Some of you might remember the photos I shared last month on Twitter and Facebook when my wonderful girlfriend, Racheal, thought it would be hilarious to put wacky eyes on everything? Well, forward to tonight. We had fish for dinner and I wanted cocktail sauce with mine. She couldn’t...
Dec172013
Pondering Life’s Lessons
“To cachinnate is to live. To do so among friends and family is what gives life’s memories their meaning.” – Wolf