Sylvia shawcross Well, we all get these stray thoughts sometimes. They are orphaned from our lives and our doings and just appear quickly like the flash of a trout...

Sylvia Shawcross It is said that the mad do not know they are mad. They live with a certainty of everything. They never doubt. They shuffle through common knowledge...

Sylvia Shawcross Um…Is anybody else out there starting to feel sorry for the globalists? Even though perhaps I’m being overly optimistic in thinking the globalists are losing the battle...

Sylvia Shawcross Sometimes when it is grey and damp and the air is heavy with the taste of a dreary day you can go down to the other side...

Sylvia Shawcross And so most of us are surviving the festive season which for some is more like the festering season. I am writing this as an apology from...

Sylvia Shawcross We must greet each other now not by vague kisses in the air off to the side, or handshakes or elbow touching, but by reaching out and...

Sylvia Shawcross Please note: This is not a humour column so avoid if despondent or if a highly judgmental holier-than-thou arse feeling omnipotent on a keyboard and by just...

Sylvia Shawcross Oh for heavens sakes! It took awhile but I finally figured it out. They have discombobulated their desires into a substitute agenda because they can’t face what...

Sylvia Shawcross In the ridiculous world of the New Abnormal where we apparently find ourselves it is critically important to add your opinion to the cacophony of why we...

Sylvia Shawcross In the ghastly world in which we live—a world that may be flat or not with a moon that we may have visited or not that is...

Sylvia Shawcross There are four types of people in the world. Well, in this world anyway. Now, the first type of person looks at the world and asks “Why?”...

Sylvia Shawcross Ah the scientists. Bless their happy little hearts I always say. Having known a few of them and dealt with them on occasion I have to admit,...

Sylvia Shawcross I don’t know what we’re all complaining about. Truly. The world is just so ripe with tremendous opportunities. We know this because Blinken, Deputy Secretary of State,...

Sylvia Shawcross Okay, to be honest, the title of this piece came from a comment by somebody on some forum somewhere which stuck in my head because it made...

Sylvia Shawcross Now, there are only two types of people in the world and it has been this way since the second generation of humans existed: those who know...

Sylvia Shawcross Is anybody else as worried as I am? THEY are not saying it anymore. They drove us crazy for at least a year when Covid arrived. There...

Sylvia Shawcross I’m afraid to go out there now. In the world I mean. Not because it is getting more and more violent or because of the germs or...

Sylvia Shawcross Well that is a relief right? Here we all were…. okay… some of us… okay… maybe ‘those people’ were worrying with all that is going on that...

Sylvia Shawcross Now, some of us, admittedly not a large number at this point, find ourselves up at midnight reading The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Mattias Desmet and wondering...

Sylvia Shawcross Well, here we are—living in the New Abnormal in the first world nations trying to figure out what to do with those little plastic tabs they put...