by PDR-Kellie | Jan 19, 2008 | Contemplations, Just For Fun, World
Last May, in downtown Santiago de Chile, I found myself laughing my head off in a brightly-lit diner. It was around midnight and a few of us, gripped by hunger, had sauntered up the street from our hostel to find something to eat. Little did we know the menu would...
by PDR-Kellie | Dec 18, 2007 | Contemplations, Issues, Recommended, World
Travelling on my own in Argentina a few years back, I read about the ruins of San Jose de Lules, a Jesuit mission outside of the small city of Tucuman. There wasn’t much to do in Tucuman. I barely spoke Spanish and I’d already seen the sights of the town,...
by PDR-Kellie | Nov 28, 2007 | Issues, World
These days, the city of lights is once again the city of street fires. And as the rioting continues in Paris, I listen to a politician from the right-wing French National Assembly saying things like “tribalism” and “racism against French...
by PDR-Kellie | Nov 26, 2007 | Pretty Pictures, World
I’ve been going through my pictures recently – you know, that ubiquitous crate full of matte paper snaps left over from pretty much every moment before digital cameras came of age – and found a bunch from my trip to Ecuador in 2000. A remedy for a...
by PDR-Kellie | Nov 22, 2007 | Contemplations, Going Green, Issues, World
Like a bunch of bullies, the current Canadian power mongers government in power has decided not to invite anyone out of the in-club to the upcoming major important meeting on climate change in Bali, Indonesia. The reason? The last time they invited opposition MPs to...
by PDR-Kellie | Nov 19, 2007 | Issues, World
For a few days before the cyclone hit the shoreline of Bangladesh, the local weather folks were talking about it. Their normally Toronto-centric radar images had suddenly swung into the far east, pointers rising as they told us how the full brunt of the wind would hit...
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