John Updike
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 [...]
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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
Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor Tidying up some items in a desk drawer, I found a tin with several old coins inside. I must have put them [...]
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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
Peter Singer
Peter Singer Just about every day an expert is happily giving the rest of us advice on what we need to do. The proposal [...]
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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 [...]