Family and business have always been inseparable for me. My counsellor nick-named me Superglue. It took two years of therapy for his message to sink in.

In his final years, my dad mysteriously opened a door to blind spots in his memory, places that were emotionally difficult. During that time, I tried to learn more about his birth mother.

Writing this took me back over 20 years, but it also made me think of our present reality, in which we give the so-called “elite” too much space in our minds and media, despite and because of how unso...

If you share your life with a dog, you know the mystery well. They seem to catch on to things you’ve never spoken, even before you do. They are wired with an awareness much deeper than ours.