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A Woman, a Child, and a Dragon
8–12 minutesLately the UK has been gripped by the Post Office scandal wherein hundreds of postal workers have been unjustly prosecuted for fraud and theft.[1] While this scandal involves events that took place between ten and twenty years ago, its effects are ongoing and resurfaced afresh this month in the four-part ITV drama “Mr. Bates vs. the Post Office.” The airing of the drama has fueled wave after wave of public outrage resulting in the announcement of new legislation to exonerate those who had been wrongly accused. Like many across the nation, my family and I, too, were incensed watching the scandalous…
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The Christmas Gift
7–10 minutesSeneca and the Tossing Game One of my happiest childhood memories of Christmas is getting together at my grandparents’ house with extended family. We’d do a secret Santa gift exchange, unwrap our gifts, and be left with a mound of crumpled up wrapping paper. We’d then ball it all up and throw it around the room. When you play this game, you notice several things. So, we’re going to play it now. Objective: toss the gift wrapping ball down the aisles to see which side wins. Condition: everyone has to touch it and it must not touch the ground (and…
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The Beatitudes
4–6 minutesA New Kingdom Moving to the UK two years ago, I needed to know how to live in this kingdom and what’s expected of me: what I should do, what I should not do. In a way, I had to go back to school to learn the rules of the United Kingdom. Author James Joyce taught me the “British beatitudes” of “beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, [debauchery] and bishops.”[1] Thanks to the primary school, I learned about “fundamental British values” such as democracy, rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect, tolerance of those of different faiths, and never, ever…