Canada 150 – Things I love about Canada.
From the perspective of a Torontonian… I am not sure when it happened. I first realized it while I was sitting in a restaurant in Kerala, India. “I am ready to go home,” I told my wife as we were…
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From the perspective of a Torontonian… I am not sure when it happened. I first realized it while I was sitting in a restaurant in Kerala, India. “I am ready to go home,” I told my wife as we were…
My mobile phone buzzes, cajoling me to pick it up. I look up at the clock on the cable set-top box, the time is 11:32 PM. I ignore the phone and go back to the TV. It’s Friday night, I…
I want to make sure that I don’t come through as a fake as I write this post. Minimalism, as a lifestyle, is not something that I have ever consciously aspired to. If anything, I would be closer to a Maximalist…
The shrill sound of the bicycle bells made me slam on the brake. I was in my car, turning right from Yonge Street onto King Street, in downtown Toronto. The light had just turned green. The two cyclists appeared to…
I sit sipping coffee at my cousin’s 54th-floor condo that overlooks the Chicago Navy Pier. For a second, I consider making myself a Mimosa from the well-stocked bar but quickly reject the idea. It’s not noon yet. Need to stay disciplined,…
The Fifty Fifty Club was formed during the winter of 2006, in Edmonton, Alberta. I am the founder of the club. It’s an elite club, though not elitist. It has only four members in it. Two of the members are Japanese,…
A few weeks ago I met Myrtle Simpson. The lady is well over 80. In the 1960s she became the first woman to ski across Greenland with four others on an unsupported expedition. As this wonderfully feisty lady recounts her…
When the report from the medical clinic referred to me as “obese,” I took a double take. The reference was in the Body Mass Index (BMI) section of the report. My family doctor had suggested a series of preemptive risk…
At an early stage of life, if you could choose five traits that could shape your destiny, what would they be? Have you ever thought about it? Choices are a way of life. We develop our instincts and start making…
The epidural was a game-changer. It was the first time in 25 years that I did not feel the throbbing unrelenting pain of arthritis in my lower back. I wept with joy. It was the sweetest experience of my life, prior to…