Remittance Man: Families, What Are You Gonna Do?       For the unfamiliar, a remittance man is the...

I’VE ALWAYS BEEN NUTS – The Parade

By John Paul Jarvis
Location: Toronto — Canada

          The Parade       The initiation of my business career was in the Business Systems Division of Kodak. My...

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Baseball Player Extraordinaire Gary Carter – 1957-2012

By John Paul Jarvis
Location: Toronto – Canada

  This is about a great player who was gracious, of sterling character, and the first Montreal Expo to be inducted into Baseball’s Hall of...

Longings for Macedonia

By John Paul Jarvis
Location: Toronto - Canada

Toronto unilaterally declared itself the world’s most diverse city. In reality this is not a great stretch with 140 languages and dialects throughout this collection...

Prescience

By John Paul Jarvis
Location: Toronto - Canada

  My best friend Mike was a cop, now retired.  A very intelligent man except for his choice of vocation, and most would suggest his...

Throw Out Your CDs

By John Paul Jarvis
Location: Toronto - Canada

I am not a Mac person. I wanted a computer, not to join a religious cult. Back in the stone age of digitization, I got...

Sid Levine

By John Paul Jarvis
Location: Toronto - Canada

I took over a lens and camera distributor in Montreal in the late ’70s to transform it into a subsidiary of a multinational company with...

Amish Not Irish

By John Paul Jarvis
Location: Toronto – Canada

I own rural property that needed a few large trees cut and sold for timber. Bid process on the internet is how it is accomplished...

I’VE ALWAYS BEEN NUTS – Signature Songs – Eva Cassidy

By John Paul Jarvis
Location: Toronto – Canada

            Signature Songs Eva Cassidy     “Satisfaction” by the Stones, “Georgia” for Ray Charles and “I left my heart...

I’VE ALWAYS BEEN NUTS – Dr. Howard, M.D.

By John Paul Jarvis
Location: Toronto – Canada

                Dr. Howard, M.D.       My lifelong doctor had the bedside manner of a coroner.  He...

The Litigious Lord Black Of Crossharbour

By John Paul Jarvis
Location: Toronto – Canada

            Conrad Moffat Black U.S. Corrections Prisoner  18330-424       Lord Black, former head of Hollinger Inc., lost an...

Requiem For A Giant

By John Paul Jarvis
Location: Toronto – Canada

Requiem For A Giant   I started my career with Kodak (1969 to 1976) during their halcyon days of sales and marketing.   I was...

Cuba 1974

By John Paul Jarvis
Location: Toronto – Canada

      In the early years of Cuban tourism, a decade after the 1959 revolution, the beaches were spectacular and the purported first class...

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Holocaust Deniers

By John Paul Jarvis
Location: Toronto - Canada

I will cut directly to the chase; holocaust deniers are idiots. Israel still has citizens with green tattoos from the death camps, difficult to refute....

Health Care

By John Paul Jarvis
Location: Toronto - Canada

I watched Michael Moore’s 2007 documentary ‘Sicko’ that berates the US health system for leaving 47.5 million Americans uninsured. The film critically compares methods of...

The Final

By John Paul Jarvis
Location: Toronto - Canada

My daughter was a member of the Acton High Swim Team from Grade 9 to Grade 13. She was blessed with athletic skill as well...