My dad first said that phrase to me a long time ago. They were old words of wisdom and what they mean is that you should form your opinion of someone based on your direct dealings with them and not based on what others may say about them.
In the course of writing opinion pieces, it is obvious that you really can’t please everyone all the time. Differences of opinion make the world go round.
Now the angriest a reader ever became over something that I wrote was from a piece that wasn’t about
I watched the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees in the World Series this year. I am connected to the Dodgers and Yanks by an odd link. That link is school, specifically my old school, St. Bon’s.
In 1955 it was an all- boys
Donald Trump has been elected again to be President of the United States. It is hard to believe. He didn’t steal the presidency. He didn’t get himself elected under false pretences. He told everyone exactly the way he was and what he stood for. On election day the people
I went for a drive last week into what was my distant past. My goal was to look at some places and things that were a part of that past but had been squeezed aside by such things as work, family responsibilities and time. I wanted to see if
It’s fitting that icebergs are front and center every Spring and have worked their icyway into our commerce. It’s a “good” year for icebergs, some say, and means something. They matter to us. They are dollars in a place badly in need of dollars.
The problem
In the mid 1980s my habit on Friday evenings after the news was to go to a friend’s house for a couple of drinks. My wife, Judy, worked in the same NTV building as I did, and she would drop me off and go for the Friday groceries. It
For those old enough to remember the early days of television in Newfoundland there was a brilliant promo for what was then CJON-TV. It said that CJON was “Your Window on the World”. It was very true. Television was, and is, a technological social force without equal in the
My wife and I were downtown a few weeks ago to the Convention Centre on New Gower Street. The occasion was the Beyond Van Gogh exhibition. That is a new multi-media celebration of the works of Vincent Van Gogh. It was all so quiet, peaceful, and civilized. My wife Judy is
When we were in school the Irish Christian Brothers told us about “patron saints” who sat at the right hand of God. You could pray to them, or through them, and ask for intercession in different areas of special intention. An example is the well known St. Jude who