Eilidh, once the world’s most famous ballerina, has spent the last five years as a run-of-the-mill marketing executive at her father’s company after a life-altering injury put an end to her prodigious career. She might be lacking in accolades compared to her siblings, but if her fathe...
Rather than the accoladesThe world bestows on Such fools Along with Herod and PilateAnas and Caiaphas.___The pastor of Bethlehem’sChristmas Church saidSomething like thatIn his own Christmas sermonThis yearJust like the oneFew noticedWhen he said itLast year.Here’s his Xmas creche Here’...
Thenovelsat on my bookshelf, imposing, menacing, and calling along withHarry Blamires’ guidefor at least 10 years. I knew, I wanted to tackle this great of modern literature, but have always been as intimated by its heft yet also entranced by its accolades. The facts that it is a nov...
intentionally ignoring the “fight it legislatively” and “fight it in the courts” part of Jeffrey’s speech and deciding he was making some gangsta-ass pro-riot statement just because he used the words “in the street.”
Here Are My Accolades Posted on March 8, 2015 My mother took her first breath in a small, white houseboat floating in the cool waters of Potato Slough on the California River Delta on December 4, 1924. She took her last roughly 200 miles northeast in the big, brown home we shared in...
The accolades were many for Lightfoot, who was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2023. He also received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award in 1997 and was presented the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. That same year he was inducted into the Songwriters...
some of them had become directly antagonistic to our interests, while we kept silent. We bought into trade agreements that helped hollow out our own middle class. We sacrificed American competitiveness for accolades from the UN and climate activists. And we engaged in conflicts without a...
that no other hospital lured me away. The director of my residency program once commented that I was the smartest resident they ever had, and one of my former bosses told me that I was the smartest doctor he ever met. Aren't theseimplausibleaccoladesfor someone who once was a class dunce...
I blame it on the Templeton Religion Trust who 15 months ago gave me and Marty Seligman (former president of APA, founder of positive psych, one of the most influential psychologists alive today, [insert further accolades here]) a couple hundred thousand dollars to explore an idea that I’...
final gig was at the Leederville Punk Festival in mid-78; The Orphans played their first earlier the same night – and blew The Victims off the stage. Dave Faulkner acknowledged that publicly during the Victims’ set, and I received accolades privately from James Baker and Kim Salmon, among ...