Lori-Ann Livingston: Chiefly Moloney
Lori-Ann Livingston, The Circle
A conversation with Paddy Moloney is like flicking through the Who's Who in the music world. The American military song comes...
Lori-Ann Livingston: Who vs. whom
Lori-Ann Livingston, The Circle
Grammar is a set of rules about the structure of language. Most people are indifferent to the invisible gears that make...
Being a Muslim Blogger
Mohammed Faris
Being a blogger used to be cool. When people first started blogging back in the early 2000’s, it was very fashionable for someone...
Lori-Ann Livingston: Plain Language
Lori-Ann Livingston, The Circle
“The purpose of a plain-language approach in written communication is to convey information easily and unambiguously. It should not be confused...
Lori-Ann Livingston: Speaking plainly
Lori-Ann Livingston, The Circle
Have you encountered situations where a document’s language caused more trouble than it solved? Perhaps you had to read it several...
Lori-Ann Livingston: The love of language
Lori-Ann Livingston, The Circle
What are you scared of?
Are you irrationally afraid of something? To the point that your body physically responds? Oxford English Dictionary...
Celebrating Human Rights Through Art
Yasmine Mahmoud, The Circle
“While the international community and human rights activists emphasize that human rights are universal, inalienable and imprescriptible, the truth is that...
Azfar Rizvi: Compassion, the Core Human Value
Azfar Rizvi, The Circle
For my inaugural ‘Circle’ post, I wanted to write about contemporary North American Muslim community in general, and in particular how Canadians...
Grady Fleming: Purpose-Driven Productivity
Grady Fleming, The Circle
Do you ever find yourself desperately seeking for motivation, but are convinced that no such thing exists, because if you happen...
Matthew Kelly: Love in Sufi Poetry
Matthew Kelly, The Circle
The enduring resonance of the poetry of thirteenth-century Islamic poet, Mevlana Jalal al-Din Rumi, extends across cultures and through the centuries...