by jorahkai | Dec 25, 2020 | Blog, Blog2, Rhett, Toronto, Canada
By Rhett Morita, TORONTO CANADA As we enter the closing days of an unprecedented year, one observation in myself and the world is the undeniable mark of stress. As a newish ‘actor,’ now hyper-aware of appearances, I have observed how I look 5-7 years older...
by jorahkai | Dec 13, 2020 | Blog2, CANADA
By Rebecca Lippiatt, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Cassandra should be the patron saint of Alberta’s health professionals. While she wasn’t a goddess or a saint, her mythology befits how public health experts are treated in Alberta. Apollo spit into her mouth...
by jorahkai | Dec 3, 2020 | Blog, Blog2, Chongqing, China
Day 317 of lockdown: Thanksgiving creates a wave within a wave in the USA, vaccines are approved and the pandemic grinds on. * * * December 4 — Gobble Gobble Day 317. When I first saw him, I thought of a vampire lord, idly formal in a pressed shirt and tie, somehow in...
by jorahkai | Nov 21, 2020 | Blog, Blog2, Chongqing, China
When Regis Korchinski-Paquet, a 29-year-old woman, fell to her death from her balcony while six police officers entered her apartment during a domestic disturbance call, no one asked her opinion on gravity. Questions swirled around how the Toronto, Canada woman fell,...
by jorahkai | Nov 2, 2020 | Blog, Blog2, Chongqing, China, Jorah Kai
Day 284. I wake up in a daze as my wrist buzzes and my alarm chimes through the heavy filters of my earplugs. It’s 6:30 AM on Friday. I roll out of bed, stumble into my slippers, and creep so as not to wake Shaolin to the bathroom. I wash my face, brush my...
by jorahkai | Oct 21, 2020 | Blog, Blog2, Chongqing, China, Contributors, Jorah Kai
If I told you five years ago that in 2020, China, because of it’s ‘heavy-handed authoritarianism’ as the West likes to call it (as opposed to the flaming-hot Trumpster fire over there) or particularly useful sense of order and harmony amongst citizens and their almost...