Other essays: Posts on various topics readers may find interesting or amusing
Coming from my background as a historian, a resident of New Brunswick since 2019, a former public servant with Service New Brunswick, and an elected official myself some years ago, I was eager to read this when I first saw the title.
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“Who am I to say that something unbelievable is impossible?”
I’ve written a poem or two over the past six years since moving to the very shore of Canada’s east coast. But I would never call myself a poet. Derek Beaulieu begs to differ.
Prolific New Brunswick author, Donald J. Savoie, takes a fresh look at New Brunswick’s most consequential Premier, and almost certainly the province’s most courageous one.
Taxes have paid for all my maladies over the years. I’ve had both my knees replaced, and ten surgeries on my knees prior to that...
Stoicism preaches equanimity, even in the face of ongoing evil - no easy feat
For some, life in the “last quarter’ is a series of endless adventures – “full steam ahead” – whether it be travelling to all points on the compass, learning a new language, or even starting a new business. For others, it may be something simpler...
Some say that good conversation has gone by the wayside in the digital age. I’m not sure that there was that much good conversation happening in the first place.
Don’t judge, they say, before walking 1.6 kilometres (or so) in another’s shoes.
As even a cursory Google search will show, raising your offspring in a child-centred home isn’t a good idea, neither for the children nor the parents.