A Kite-Flying Wedding on the Mall

What to Wear, and What to Fly, at Such an Event?

The Albatross

A Poem by Charles Baudelaire

In 2000, an esteemed teaching colleague of mind died, and I translated…

The slow goodbye

Everyone who has ever accompanied a loved one through a final illness, knows the feeling: saying the slow goodbye. Not wanting it…

A Different Kind of Silence

I am alone in a 57 year old house built on the high prairie near Las Vegas ,New Mexico. The house was built to…

One Degree of Separation

When I am in a place with other people, like on the bus or at the cinema, I sometimes focus on two people sitting…

Irish Luck

An Irishman’s reflections on St. Patrick’s Day

Globetrotting

(This piece is inspired by the photographs and thoughts of V.Plut. The photographs are all my own. )

Privilege and Responsibility

“Generous to a Fault”

SGHolland 2019

As I read the scandalous headlines about certain wealthy people using their assets to assist their children in getting into prestigious colleges, I am having 
once again a sense of relief…

Marching Forth

“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today”.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The relativity of weight

For any readers who Google-surfed here, expecting a blog on ‘your body is beautiful just the way it is’, sorry…