Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf In writing about Virginia Woolf, I’m going to take the easy way out. I will avoid talking about her novels. It’s a [...]
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Here and There – Russia
Here and There – Russia When people write about their parents, they often relate key events during their upbringing, describing the outstanding moments, some [...]
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11, 2022
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut When I first read Slaughterhouse-Five, way back in the 1970s, I knew almost nothing about postmodernist novels and their importance as a [...]
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11, 2022
Here and There – Bermuda
Here and there – Bermuda There are many anomalous places in the world, but Bermuda has to be one of the more unusual. Before [...]
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10, 2022
Here and There – Papua New Guinea
Here and There – Papua New Guine I first visited Papua New Guinea at the beginning of the 1980s. Working for Shell, I was [...]
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10, 2022
Here and There – Eire
Here and There – Éire To someone brought up in England, the west coast of Ireland, Éire, always seemed exotic and different. This was [...]
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09, 2022
Theodore Roszak
Theodore Roszak The intellectual world in the late 1960s and early 1970s was vibrantly polemic. While their students were taking to the streets in [...]
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09, 2022
Here and There – Singapore
Here and There – Singapore Against my expectations, I was in Singapore recently. I thought I was finished with paid activities, especially working overseas. [...]
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09, 2022
Robert Putnam
Robert Putnam In case you haven’t noticed, I am a sucker for ‘big picture’ books (not big ‘picture books’, though I like them, too!). [...]
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09, 2022
Here and There – America
Here and there – The United States of America I had been living in the US for a little over a year when the [...]