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We were warned that November was the beginning of the rainy season in Vancouver, but circumstances aligned to make it an ideal time for us to visit. We needed to use an Air Canada credit by the end of the year, Hannah had a four-day weekend from school, and Glenn was spending most of the fall on the West Coast for business anyway. So we rolled the dice and hoped that the West Coast’s dry spell would last just a little bit longer. Unfortunately, our gamble didn’t pay off and we were blessed with two full days of pouring rain....

Greta Thunberg thunders on, while not far behind the 20-year-old Swedish climate awareness star, is a similar cohort of men and women, age sixty and above, coming together under a two-year-old umbrella organization called the Third Act. Like typical third acts in theater, the movement refers to a growing number of the so-called elderly who ‘sum up’ past careers by applying their professional skills to civic activities in new ways. If the name calls to mind F. Scott Fitzgerald’s disputed phrase – “there are no second acts in American lives’ – where ‘Great Gatsby’s author seemed to disparage late age...

Of course we have blowback which has been the the history of every other insurgency sponsored by a neighboring power.  At least Stalin knew to round them all up and then shoot them.  After all disloyalty is terribly infectious.Truth is, the pakistani military is so diserving.  The good news is that it should slowly age out so long as they simply accept the damage.Even the old NAZIS soon gave it up for a return to civilian life.  Lies eventually lose their edge.A suicide blast killed 101 in a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan in January. Terror attacks in the country have...

Look good, feel good, play good – that’s my golf motto. I’m not just talking about your golf clothes either, how you organize a golf bag is just as important. Plus, don’t you feel better when you have a clean environment in your home or office? Believe it or not but organizing your golf bag the right way can actually help you shoot lower scores. According to the Cleaning Collective, “In their 2011 study, researchers at Princeton University concluded that a cluttered environment makes it more difficult to focus on a specific task due to a person’s visual cortex being overwhelmed by...

My weeklong vacation to Da Nang & Hoi An was a fitting reintroduction to traveling for me. After being stuck at home for so long, I wished hard that my first trip abroad would be a memorable one. I was certainly not let down! These cities in Central Vietnam never featured heavily on my radar before, but after this trip, all I want to do is go back—and soon! Now I don’t want to make this introduction too long, so I will tell you straight up that I had an absolutely amazing and memorable time visiting both Da Nang &...