Non-fiction

Thabo Mbeki

Thabo Mbeki is a South African leader and member of the African National Congress who served as the second president of South Africa. Before that he...
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Stuff

Jeff Bezos has all my money (allegedly). He owes me an invitation to the wedding at the very least. I must have paid for the buffet in books alone...
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Projecting

After the walk to the next village, I get the bus back home. Flopping down onto the seat to look out the window for dolphins as the bus birds-eyes up...
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Losing the Plot

Chihuly reckons the best way to get moving with a project - start another project at the same time. A book on how to create a Moon Garden caught my...
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The Shampoo Haiku

In order to save the planet, certain shampoo manufacturers have started packaging in hard bottles. I don’t know the composition exactly, half bamboo...
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Le Merle Noir

In ‘Bird by Bird’, Anne Lamott mentions someone called Wallace Stevens. I had to Google in order to get the joke. He was a poet who worked in...
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A Trip through Old Florida

Babcock Ranch Excursion We set out from Estero at 10:30 A.M. and followed Rte. # 75 north. We exited onto Bayshore Rd., following it east to Rte. #31...
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The Nature of Feelings

The grass was still glistening with dew in the walled garden. I was early. It’s a Boomer thing. Plus, you must allow for stuck-behind-a-tractor...
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Informed Rituals

I should have known from the psychedelic colours in the gorse that a migraine was coming. I haven’t had a migraine in years, so didn’t twig. I...
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A Kodak Moment

History as a Kodak Moment I was leafing through a volume of historical photos, published by the Buffalo News. They were snapshots of Buffalo, N.Y...