As someone who is already a fan of books by New York Times best-selling author Kristin Hannah, I couldn’t wait for her newest release, The Women. It’s a story about the war in Vietnam during the late sixties and early seventies when thousands of people were dying for a dubious cause. Sadly, no one acknowledged or appreciated the contribution made by the women at that time,…
Are you still enjoying the internet? Does it still excite you the way it once did or has it become a chore, an onerous and exhausting exercise you devote countless hours to simply because it’s there demanding attention? Do you mourn those wasted hours on Instagram and Facebook absorbing useless information and following vague threads to a questionable end? I signed on to Substack last…
Ten years and exactly one thousand essays later (my high-school English teachers would be shocked), I think I can congratulate myself for actually sticking with it. When I posted my first BoomerBroadcast message Those Were The Days My Friend to baby boomer readers on September 14, 2013, I wasn’t sure I would have the stick-to-it-iveness to keep blogging. Did I have the stamina? Would I…
With the start of the new school year only a few days away, I thought this would be a good time to comment on a bit of news about education that I heard recently. A friend who is a retired teacher and school librarian, sent me a copy of an article by Kristin Rushowy in The Toronto Star, Cursive Writing and Typing Will Return to…
A recent article in The Globe and Mail, Is the ‘career’ dead? by Stacy Lee Kong got me thinking. Kong presents a case for reconsidering the meaning of a career in today’s fast-changing world. What we once referred to as the career ladder can now be called the career jungle gymn. Instead of landing a secure job with an established employer (or two) and moving up within…
Do you fancy some take-out Chinese food? Pull up Uber-Eats on your phone. Choices galore. Need more paper for your printer? More moisturizer? New sneakers? New socks or insoles for your old sneakers? All these and more are available to be delivered right to your door, sometimes on the same day on Amazon. Technology has turned us into a society of recluses. I have fallen…
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