Category: Embracing AI

In my final year of undergrad studies, unsure what to do next, I did what many equally directionless classmates did: I considered applying to law school. There was one major stumbling block, though. It required writing the LSAT, the law school admission test. I can still picture the morning a group of us gathered in…

Nora Ephron has been my literary idol since the mid-1970s. Long before the movie-going public discovered her screenwriting wit in “Heartburn” and “When Harry Met Sally,” I’d already devoured her laugh‑out‑loud essay collections “Crazy Salad” and “Scribble Scribble.” For years, her comic memoirs, “I Feel Bad About My Neck” and “I Remember Nothing,” sat on…

Remember Raveen? How about the Amazing Kreskin? Either one of those famous 1970’s show biz hypnotists would have called me up on stage to entertain audiences. I’m that easily hypnotized.   Back in the day, I discovered just how hypnotizable I am during an assignment for CBC-TV News in Windsor, Ontario. I was interviewing a local…