With the amount of work that needed doing when I was growing up, we needed a maid. Even two would have found enough to do. We changed them often. My mother was…picky; and prone to anger. The record was four in four days. A friend of mine came over every day for this period and [...]

I might be obsessed with the idea of identity. Having written two previous articles on this topic (here and here), I was about to return to it yet again, but then I thought it would be more fun to talk about how I met John Cornelius Oliver (crazy English dude on The Daily Show with [...]

I have previously written an article on Fair Trade and some of the problems it poses for developing countries. I didn’t explore Free Trade then at least partly because because “Free Trade” is another one of those ideas, like human perfection, or Arsenal winning the Premier League; it is possible, but highly improbable. I also [...]

It’s all very well investigating why the Grim Reaper might come to get us, but it’s where he takes us afterwards that’s the bigger research project for humanity. All the hullabaloo about the big “D” is there mostly because we don’t know what comes after. Well, at least I don’t. No one I know has [...]

[THIS IS A REPUBLISHED ARTICLE...THE ORIGINAL WAS DELETED] It turns out that fair trade isn’t necessarily fair after all. In July of 2008, The representatives of the nation members of the World Trade Organization holed themselves up at the WTO’s Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The objective was to try – once again – to resolve [...]

It’s okay. You don’t have to run away; it’s just good ol’ Death…the end of life as we know it. And you know what…it might not be so bad…really. In fact, the good thing about death is the certainty. I mean, if there’s one thing you can be sure of when you are born, it’s [...]

Please be warned: this article is peppered…no…imbued with barely concealed profanity and vulgarity. Those of a sensitive disposition…please go elsewhere. Swearing is one of those things that is encoded in our genes. It’s been here since the dawn of man. You can bet that Caveman Bo cursed the first time he accidentally kicked his foot [...]

I am imagining a club that has existed for generations. My parents’ parents were members. My parents are members. The rules of the club are mystical and unfathomable to the un-initiate. They cannot be understood by the logical mind. The very idea of this club is based on shared history and faith. Now, I have [...]

When I think about cultural identity, images of people in traditional African garb involved in some sort of ceremony immediately come to mind. These pictures are indicative of the associations that have been made in my mind around the concepts of culture and tradition. This particular set of images may be related to my particular [...]

“It’s called climate change and has only been exacerbated by the country’s state of unpreparedness…Do not tell us you didn’t know!” – Kenyan Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai appeals to world leaders at the UN summit on climate change in New York. I can say this with some confidence…conditions in our world are changing; weather [...]