Stephen Sinclair

Dec 7, 2024 | 3rdactmagazine.com | Stephen Sinclair |David Nemetz

“Kids these days!”        I’ve lost count of how many times one of my fellow Boomers has made that proclamation, often aimed at a young person’s behavior or attitude. I often want to agree with them but stop myself knowing that I prompted similar statements from older people when I was young.      In 1973, while hitchhiking around Europe, my hippie friends and I found ourselves in Vienna. We had just bought some sandwiches and decided to eat on a lawn outside St. Stephen’s Cathedral.

Sep 27, 2024 | mdpi.com | Stephen Sinclair |Sean Shearen |Youssef Ghobrial |George Trad

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Aug 18, 2024 | 3rdactmagazine.com | Stephen Sinclair |David Nemetz

Navigating the Family Sunday Dinner During a Fraught Time I was eight years old sitting on a booster seat in the barber chair at Frank “Penny” Rich’s barbershop in Spooner, Wis. While my dad and mom waited, he gave me a quick haircut and then took out a “Kennedy for President” button and pinned it onto my shirt. Mr. Rich was the county Democratic Party chair and we had gone to his shop so my parents, who were Democrats, could talk with him about the upcoming presidential election.

Jun 12, 2024 | 3rdactmagazine.com | Stephen Sinclair |Victoria Starr Marshall

A friend of mine, a young man who always seems optimistic and full of life, recently told me he was feeling “blah” and kind of “down.” When I asked what he thought was the cause of this, he said he didn’t know, that he hadn’t ever felt this way. I asked him several questions hoping to get an understanding of what he was experiencing. It seemed he’d lost interest in the activities that normally brought him joy.

Mar 13, 2024 | discover.hubpages.com | Stephen Sinclair

'Scab': Unnecessarily PejorativeOn Unions as 'Hate Groups'In his previous writing, this writer described the Ontario Public Service Employees Union and the Canadian Union of Public Employees as "hate groups," because their members refer to others as "scab" and "retard."This is a somewhat harsh judgement of people who work long, hard hours saving lives, of those who witness untellable horrors on a regular basis, and of those who have risked and given their own lives serving others.