Hopeful and Shameful
Like many of you, I’m being asked what I think of the outcome of the American election. I am, as a theologian friend describes himself, “a member of the radical centre”. So while I don’t dislike or disrespect Mitt Romney – a man born to privilege....(Click on the article main title to read the whole.)
Amsterdam’s Historic Red Light District
My wife and I were in Amsterdam earlier this year, not longer after Ontario's superior court ruled in favour of brothels. One afternoon an excellent city guide, Cecilia Theobaldi, took us through the world's most noted prostitution area: Amsterdam's Red Light District, so famous it's part of tourism itineraries and marked on tourist maps. Skip it and you skip part of local history, prostitution being legal there from the early 1800s.(Click on the article's bold title to read the whole.)
Kenneth’s Reflections – October 27, 2012
Now and then, I did a column headed with one word: "Reflections." It was a collection of random comments on questions I'd been asked, letters I'd received, books I'd read....(Click on the blog's main title to read the whole.)
Port Morien – Thriving on the far reaches of Cape Breton
Then, this past August, after a long absence I returned — with wife Barbara. (Click on the article's main title to read the whole.)
Having a Ball on a Baltic Cruise
There may be no city on Earth as ornate as St. Petersburg, rising over water on 19 islands, lined by bridges and canals. (Click on the article's main title to read the whole.)