For years now, I’ve been experiencing the onset of a slow love affair with cricket. Maybe it’s because I love puzzles (especially the cryptic kind), and here in North America, cricket is usually shrouded in mystery. It’s viewed as baseball’s exotic, off-kilter cousin whose rules are just a bit too cryptic to figure out, thank…
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It’s been six years since the tsunami devastated South & Southeast Asia, and just over a year since the massive earthquake in Haiti. There was a lot of coverage in January about how Haiti is faring, one year later, and hearing all about it has gotten me thinking again about being in Sri Lanka in…
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These days my tinnitus is pretty bad. It’s a ringing in my ear that I notice most frequently at night, when all else is quiet. It used to be just in my left ear, but lately my right ear has been acting up. Recently I wrote about how tinnitus has altered the way I think about…
Read MorePaolo Pietropaolo is a journalist, broadcaster, composer and writer based in Vancouver, Canada.
