asking questions and discovering how little I know
From the monthly archives:
I’m not sure whether I should thank David Campbell or curse him. A week or so late I came across his post Literacy and have been preoccupied by the topic ever since. Here’s what I put on Twitter and it encapsulates what my thinking has been: If you are not literate, you cede control over [...]
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This weekend I stunned myself, my neighbours and almost everyone who knows me by finally venturing from my condo in search of new clothing. You would think, looking at me, that I care nothing for my appearance. That I’m one of those clowns who will wear anything because … well, in the absence of pride [...]
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After posting Violence, power and four letter words I continued to muse about the subject and had a few other thoughts. Of course, I’m just speculating here, but … One of the characteristics of our use of four letter words is that quite often, while expressive of violence, they are also expressions of impotence. It’s [...]
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I just tweeted this: Why do so many of us say hate is a bad thing then spit hate when it comes to politics and religion? It was prompted after reading the comments to this article in the The Globe & Mail: ‘God’s verdict’ outranks history’s, PM says. They are very depressing. As one commenter [...]
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My sense is that here, in the western world, we have a thing about purpose – everything and everyone must have a purpose. We get frustrated and sometimes irritable when we can’t see any. I was thinking about this after doing one of those silly meme things on Facebook. There was a question like, “When [...]
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I'm Bill Wren, a writer-editor, social media enthusiast in Fredericton, New Brunswick. And that would be my dog, Molly Bloom, as a logo in the header.
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