Feeling like the only gay student at one’s high school remains a paradoxically common experience.
Friday HuffPost Edition – Ten things I’ve learned from Christopher Hitchens
December 16, 2011 By 2 Comments
Noted writer and essayist Christopher Hitchens just died after battling with throat cancer. Here are ten things I’ve learned from him: 1. Anybody who is willing to be waterboarded to test his own beliefs, and then able to change his beliefs afterwards, is to be respected. 2. Atheism is a real hot-button issue, so if you are going to [...]
Remembrance Day HuffPost Edition – Ten things I’ve learned from veterans and war objectors
November 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
1. In the 1960s and 1970s, Canadian Quakers housed and supported a large number of conscientious objectors in Canada. It allowed people like my dad to live, and eventually settle, here when he came up from California during the Vietnam War. It later meant that I briefly had a place to stay in Vancouver when [...]
Thursday HuffPost Edition – Ten things I've learned from Steve Jobs
October 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
1. Form is as important as function. 2. Corporate presentations do not have to be boring, or text-heavy, or generic. Presentations are performances; they should be important, heady, image-based, funny, and idealistic. Steve Jobs made corporate presentations into events. 3. Good, visionary people are critical and irreplaceable… Read the rest of this week’s post here
Thursday HuffPost Edition – Ten things I’ve learned from Craig Kielburger
September 29, 2011 By 1 Comment
Monday HuffPost Edition – Ten things I've learned from 9/11
September 12, 2011 By 1 Comment
“When I went to forgive those who had bullied me in school, they had no idea what they had done to me.”
This is a comment by Anonymous on the post “Should We Forgive Apologetic Bullies?”