FACTS are stranger than HISTORICAL FICTION

Quotes that will get your imagination going.

Sunday, 29 September 2013

ADDED VALUE. From heroin to customized driveways

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SERIOUS HETEROSEXUAL A shipment of carpets from Pakistan was confiscated at the Toronto airport. The carpets had heroin woven into...
Thursday, 26 September 2013

AVERSION THERAPY. The Boomer Effect

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Headline in the Globe, 25 Sept: Baby Boomers rediscover Marijuana . Apparently teenagers are already aware of this trend among the old...
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Sunday, 22 September 2013

HOW TO BECOME A CHAMPION. Blood, water, and surgery.

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The other day the Globe & Mail ran a headline that got my immediate attention: Ultimate Dieting . But this diet, it turned out, is...
Thursday, 19 September 2013

DEFINE THAT!

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The language of newspapers has become so demanding lately that I had to consult on-line dictionaries. Let me share my findings with yo...
Sunday, 15 September 2013

HELP! MY BANDWIDTH IS SHRINKING!

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Why Having Too Little means so Much is the title of a new book by Eldar Shafir (Globe 14 Sept). He informs us that we only have so much...
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Erika Rummel
I was born in Vienna and obtained a doctorate from the University of Toronto. I am the author of more than a dozen non-fiction books (social history, biography, translation), ten novels (see them all on my website: www.erikarummel.com). I divide my time between Toronto and Los Angeles, and have lived in villages in Argentina, Romania, and Bulgaria. Want to know more about me? Follow me on Twitter @historycracks. Visit my website: http://www.erikarummel.com/
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