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Mar 9, 20241 min read
Back to school
Cross reference Triangulation with Gaslighting and further dissect with apathetic, unstable, narcissistic, delusional. Next…locate an...
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manuwrites
Jun 21, 20222 min read
Bureaucracy is a four letter word
Please allow me the usual rant that comes with readjustment. Specifically, to locations that have changed superficially and remained the...
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manuwrites
Jun 3, 20222 min read
SHEN YUN
We had the treat of a lifetime last night, at the Theatre of Udine, while attending the performance of SHEN YUN. This performance...
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manuwrites
May 31, 20222 min read
Feeling bad can be good
Regret, sadness, embarrassment mixed with astonishment, joy, euphoria mixed with disappointment, jealousy, anger and a slew of nuanced...
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manuwrites
May 27, 20222 min read
Look Watch Observe
To look – direct one’s gaze toward someone or something or in a specified direction. To watch – look at or observe attentively over a...
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manuwrites
May 17, 20223 min read
Spring clean your Inner self, your Outer self will thank you
Spring has sprung! And with it comes the required seasonal sort out of house and garden, as well as a call to living a healthier life. So...
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manuwrites
Apr 15, 20222 min read
The 1600 year old Beauty
Footsteps echo on the ancient ciotolo as you wind your way through her alleys; a mouse in a maze. During high season as you approach her...
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manuwrites
Mar 22, 20222 min read
Fog in a Jar
Photo by Ruvim There is a bar in Italy called the Kyrie Eleison (“Lord, Have Mercy”). Unique to it, as anticipated by the name, is an...
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manuwrites
Mar 4, 20221 min read
Fences – “You gotta take the crooked with the straight”
Denzel Washington and Viola Davis are beyond belief in this powerfully touching movie (based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play by August...
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manuwrites
Feb 11, 20222 min read
Arabisms
The seventh century is a very important time for the future of Italy, for it marks the beginning of the Islamic expansion; an expansion...
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manuwrites
Jan 25, 20223 min read
Identity Creators
Who are you? It all starts the moment you walk into a room. The facial and body scan, the behavioral check, followed by the detection of...
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manuwrites
Jan 4, 20226 min read
Talking Bail versus Jail in the Canadian Justice System
Our first entry of 2022 for The Interview Series is with Bail Supervisor Jo.B* MB: Good morning and thanks for agreeing to the interview....
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manuwrites
Dec 28, 20212 min read
Word nerd
I declare myself a word nerd. Being a Generation X’er I spent all my school years flanked by a full arsenal of monolingual, bilingual,...
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manuwrites
Dec 21, 20213 min read
Express yourself
An explosion of ideas Basquiat, Haring and Banksy did it via their Graffiti art. Madonna did it via her music. Writers, architects,...
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manuwrites
Nov 26, 20212 min read
Out on a limb
The expression out on a limb meaning isolated; in or into a position where one is not joined or supported by anyone else, is obviously...
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manuwrites
Nov 23, 20213 min read
Fear from Fiction
Picture this…Grade five, recess time and a ball buster boy in my class (Martin) told me that years ago someone had hung themselves in the...
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manuwrites
Nov 16, 20214 min read
CONFESSIONS OF AN ADRENALIN JUNKIE
USPA D Licensed Sky Diving Instructor – Commercial Pilot and Flight Instructor – High Altitude Alpinist and Master Scuba Diver Williams...
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manuwrites
Nov 12, 20212 min read
False friends – the vocabulary kind
While studying in Italy (as a young high school student) I visited the local grocery shop and ordered prosciutto and panini to take back...
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manuwrites
Nov 2, 20212 min read
Zines are back!
When DIY reigned Back in the late seventies and into the eighties there existed the gritty, garage style, grass roots fanzine. A...
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manuwrites
Oct 29, 20212 min read
Total recall?
We ate Tai – We ate Italian Total Recall. No way! Memories. Those fantastically flawed pearls… Remember the time we…? Remember that...
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