How can we tolerate this? Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez wanted a better life for his toddler daughter Valeria – but instead they will be remembered for dying as they tried to...
I was helping my sister move and, among her papers, I came across some correspondence between my father and one of his classmates, Miklos Rozsa, a child prodigy, who learned to...
Once upon a time there was a country with a distinguished history. In spite it being awkwardly situated geographically, its people consistently fought for ‘freedom’, but,...
A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT My friend Sam, an irascible, stubborn widower, eighty years of age, was filling out his income tax return forms on Sunday afternoon, when he suddenly became...
I fell in love with Lechon Asado – Cuban-style roast piglet – at a garden party hosted by Ramon at his finca in Pinar del Rio where Cuba’s finest tobacco grows. Thereafter,...
What follows has really happened, believe it or not. In mid-December 2018 President Trump announced, out of the blue and apparently without consulting his advisors (military or...
I am sitting by the fire at the cottage near Mont Tremblant, watching the flames dance in our beautiful Swedish wrought iron stove. The snow is soft, pure and inviting outside as...
As usual, this year’s Montreal November weather was not the kindest kind of weather that warms the cockles of the hearts of that illustrious city’s population. No Sir, not at...
Dedrick Owens was six years old when he shot and killed his six-year-old classmate, Kayla Rolland, with his uncle’s gun because he didn’t like her. (Among the twenty murderers...
Yes, Amerika with a “k”. That’s how we spelled it in Budapest after World War II, idolizing the United States, looking up to it as the shining hope for democracy world-wide....
