by Nigel Scotchmer | Oct 2, 2025 | Reviews
Nigel writes an encomium for the Cost of Glory… Twenty minutes on the rowing machine and the display will dutifully say I have rowed 3.7 kilometres. But that is not really where I am. In my mind, memories merge. I am rowing from Miletus on the Maeander to...
by Nigel Scotchmer | Sep 30, 2025 | Ramblings
Nigel writes on the irony of hindsight, and how looking back is the only way we ever really learn. “It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.” – George Eliot, Middlemarch It is a long drive to Ottawa, and one that I...
by Nigel Scotchmer | Sep 9, 2025 | Essays
Irony, #1 – Hannah Arendt, the Refugee from Königsberg – Nigel writes about a stateless thinker who made irony her weapon against totalitarianism. Hannah Arendt, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture Königsberg was a jewel on the coast of the Baltic....
by Nigel Scotchmer | Sep 2, 2025 | Recipes
Nigel writes about a long-forgotten chapter of Roman history: the rise and recipes of Rattus Romanus, consul, Stoic, and father of fusion cuisine. Everyone knows the great suffering rats endured during the Black Death. For centuries, historians, poets,...
by Nigel Scotchmer | Aug 23, 2025
Authors List Authors Aashisha Chakraborty Author of ‘Mis(s)adventures of a Salesgirl’ and ‘The 13-year-old Queen’, Aashisha moonlights as a marketing strategist and content professional. A computer engineer and MBA with 8 years of marketing experience and a...