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Maxed Out

Instant gratification, and other long-term success stories

By G.D. Maxwell I need a diet. Not a lose weight diet, although a tad off the sides and a bit off the front and back wouldn’t hurt. But then, that’s what summers are for, aren’t they? I need a get rich diet.

On golden ski slope

By G.D. Maxwell "Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough." (Groucho Marx) "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." ( H.

Mission accomplished

By G.D. Maxwell "This truly is a four-season resort," I was thinking to myself.

A special place in Hell

By G.D. Maxwell I was pretty choked a few years ago when the Pope admitted there really wasn’t a Hell. At least not a Dantesque Hell full of unimaginable, eternal tortures.

Reality politics on Canadian TV

By G.D.

February, the cruellest month

By G.D. Maxwell Roses are red, Gardenias are too sweet, Valentine’s Day deserves More than a repeat. And so the day of International Performance Anxiety looms large before us.

The human factor in a tragedy

Like most men of his generation – born shortly before the Depression and coming of age during World War II – my father always tended to see things in stark shades of black and white, the middle ground full of its shades of grey being a wast

A sign and a light

One of the duties and pleasures of being owned by Zippy the Dog is the need – requirement – to take him for walks. Zippy’s a Lab and a reasonably smart dog.

Legends among us

By G.D.

The future imperfect

By G.D. Maxwell I’m glad I’m not Whistler Blackcomb.