A Wrinkle in Time
DD17 – A Wrinkle in Time I guess it is difficult now to understand the impact of Madeleine L’Engle’s book, A Wrinkle in Time [...]
DD17 – A Wrinkle in Time I guess it is difficult now to understand the impact of Madeleine L’Engle’s book, A Wrinkle in Time [...]
Here and There – New Zealand I am not really clear why I have spent so little time in New Zealand. Just across the [...]
Here and There – 2045 Despite some squabbles as to whether it began in 2000 or 2001, by the time 2001 was under way, [...]
Here and There – Norway Norway holds a special place in my heart, for reasons that go back to my school days. Recollections from [...]
Here and There – Scotland It is hard to explain why I love Scotland. I don’t have any known Scottish ancestry. I lived there [...]
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 [...]
Here and There – China – Shanghai I first went to Shanghai for work in 1998. I had been to China several times before, [...]
John Updike It is always important to know the enemy, and on this occasion the enemy is me. Let’s be clear, I am an [...]
Here and There – Papua New Guine I first visited Papua New Guinea at the beginning of the 1980s. Working for Shell, I was [...]
Peter Singer Just about every day an expert is happily giving the rest of us advice on what we need to do. The proposal [...]