Community Corner

More than thirty years after leaving Massachusetts for Canada, Sue and I still miss the ocean. We fill that need by enjoying the hundreds of kilometers of Great Lakes shoreline. From Cherry Beach and Harbourfront just down the street to the near shores of Huron and Erie, whenever possible, we take a break, explore, picnic, watch the ...

Friday afternoon's can be full of surprises. Today, thanks to Jack Orlandi and our Facebook connection, received a video link of our mutual St. Francis High School friend, Mitch Biskup. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cRYq3smxA4 As I mentioned in a previous post, Mitch (or Mike) is now in the Polka Hall of Fame. The video shows that he's still ...

Owen Robert Mielniczuk joined family and future friends this morning at Toronto East General Hospital. Seven and half pounds, long, pink, lots of hair. Some of it appears to be red like his mom's and several others from both families. His mom's glow from the past several months remains, framing what appears to be a permanent smile. Dad assisted ...

Yearbooks mark passages. They express hopes, dreams, best wishes. In front of the alter at this year's Memorial Mass for Alumni the display of yearbooks marked the graduation years of those whose names were read. There were the expected and the unexpected. Graduates of the 90's. One from last year. Mass was concelebrated by Fr. Anthony from the ...

  The view is great. Lake Erie stretching out to Canadian shores. When homesick, I would stare out the third floor window, unconsciously reconciling the tensions. On one side the friendships of fellow boarders. On the other family, friends and far deeper familiarity. The view now slightly altered by time and economy. Blazing smokestacks ...

Occassionally I teach at Ryerson. In one of the courses, Information Architecture, we discuss language and audience within information spaces. I use the online Rap Dictionary, a wiki based compendium of hip-hop slang as a discussion reference. It is an example of the role of language enriching group communications and also creating exclusivity ...

Living downtown is noisy, crowded, and busy. The jadedness you encounter is often a survival mechanism. Too many stimuli. Every once in a while something is impossible to ignore. The visual noise that is Yonge and Dundas couldn't compete with today's camels. Four of them promoting a new CBC show, Little Mosque on the Prairies. Add in the ...

The following is from a handout provided by Robert H. Bohlke, one of my Sociology professors at American International College - A man of passion and reason who contributed both to student sensibilities. The Business Elite, “The New Masses” and The Urban Crisis By Robert H. Bohlke (undated - received in 1969) As one who was weaned ...

The New York Times, Sunday, November 24, 1968 by John Leo Liberals and radicals who view big business as the chief obstacle to social reform have the right instincts but the wrong villain according to Robert Heibroner, the economist. "The question that continually impresses and depresses me is why is it that the most rudimentary adaptations ...

I am thankful for many blessings. I was born into a loving family in a caring Missouri neighborhood, in a land, which cherished and protected my freedom. After graduating from St. Louis University Engineering School I served my country as a Pilot in the USAF. In 1960 I left my career as an engineer to serve God and my country as a missionary in ...