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By Ian McDonald | Sunday, June 14, 2009 | 0 Comments
Ian on Sunday
Experience comes to us not just through our lives but as much, perhaps more as we grow old, through reading. The greatest books …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, May 31, 2009 | 1 Comment
Ian on Sunday
Why should flesh and blood men and women, with feet of clay like anyone else, presume to think for us and act for …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, May 24, 2009 | 2 Comments
‘No ill or wrong will overmaster this’
There are some things that keep out the darkness that continually threatens in anyone’s life. Indeed there are some …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, May 17, 2009 | 0 Comments
The addiction of competition
And here is fascinating thought. Medical studies suggest that in situations of great stress, great danger, in a battle, for instance, with …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, May 10, 2009 | 1 Comment
A blessing
Perhaps my oldest memory, I must have been two or three, is of my mother hugging me at night when she put me into …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, May 3, 2009 | 2 Comments
Ian on Sunday
Running anything – whether it is a national government, vast state industry, world-circling multi-national, small family business, or private club – involves making …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, April 26, 2009 | 4 Comments
The view from seventy-six
With shocking quickness, another year has gone by in a blur and I am suddenly seventy-six. As Robert Frost wrote in …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, April 19, 2009 | 0 Comments
Fulsome words, faltering deeds
One of the most serious aspects of life today is the widening gap between talk and action. It has got so bad …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, April 12, 2009 | 4 Comments
It is all a dream
My father died nearly fourteen years ago at the age of 89. He was a good man and a beloved father. …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, April 5, 2009 | 1 Comment
Too many of my good friends are overwhelmed with work which prevents them living more peaceful, varied, interesting and fulfilled lives. For them, and as …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, March 29, 2009 | 2 Comments
Ian on Sunday
When you go well past three score years and ten you are in overtime and a penalty shoot-out looms which you know you …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, March 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
Ian on Sunday
In Guyana education some time ago deteriorated to the point where parents had little confidence that the formal system would or could produce …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, March 15, 2009 | 4 Comments
Faithful to the cause
I venture to suggest that there is no West Indian cause so sacred as the success of the West Indies cricket team.
It …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, March 8, 2009 | 0 Comments
The overmighty centre
Any practical person in charge of anything periodically asks the question: ‘How do we get things done most effectively?’ In asking such a …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, March 1, 2009 | 1 Comment
The world is bankrupt. The Great Regulator in the Sky for some good reason has put His people everywhere into receivership and the impact will …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, February 22, 2009 | 3 Comments
Leaders and language:
There is a close correlation between the inspiring use of language and getting great deeds done. Abraham Lincoln won the Civil War, preserved …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, February 15, 2009 | 2 Comments
Anxiety grows in me
Let me make another trawl in the deep sea of reading which lies all around us and see what bright catch comes …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, February 8, 2009 | 5 Comments
Personal performance is the key
Guyana is in a period of gloom, who can doubt it. The economy is approaching recession and is likely to suffer …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, February 1, 2009 | 3 Comments
The love of reading lasts forever
The year 2008 slipped by with devastating swiftness and already another year is well advanced. I look back again over …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, January 25, 2009 | 2 Comments
What the earth swallows is soon forgotten
The Stabroek News feature ‘History This Week’ is providing readers with a most valuable series of vignettes from Guyana’s …
