Category: Amazing

A Suspended Coffee, Please

A poorly dressed man asked for a ‘Suspended’ coffee in a cafe. I was very surprised when I learned what this meant! A few years ago, I sat with a friend in a small cozy cafe near the famous city of Venice. While we were enjoying incredibly delicious […]

Did twenty-two Strategic Defense Initiative researchers really Commit Suicide?

MICHAEL WALSH INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM Fifty-year-old Alistair Beckham was a successful British aerospace-projects engineer. His speciality was designing computer software for sophisticated naval defense systems. Like hundreds of other British scientists, he was working on a pilot program for America’s Strategic Defense Initiative-better known as Star Wars. And like […]

WHY DROWN THROUGH IGNORANCE

It is always sad to read of needless deaths by drowning. Most drownings were avoidable. Such tragedies are common but most heart-rending are the many people who die not through drowning but through lack of knowledge. Those more aware of how to respond in a difficult situation would […]

ARE MARRIAGES MADE IN HEAVEN

Michael Walsh’s poem, The Garden Bower, evoked a story from a North American reader who writes: I have had these conversations since the last ten years with my husband Bert, who died so tragically. His soul left his body in 2009 when he signalled me by illuminating my office with the most radiant warm glow. When I looked outside there was a beautiful red cardinal bird sitting on the giant spruce tree in my back garden.