Category: Life, the universe and everything

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The center crumbles

Things I’ve noticed while slouching toward Bethlehem The falcon cannot hear the falconer. Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold … More

9th ray of the sun

Of course by the time John Carter got to Mars it was already too late. Great civilizations had crumbled. Oceans … More

Days of wine and poses

We spent five weeks this summer on Otty Lake, in Lanark County Ontario. And I probably took a hundred sunset … More

Adrift on Otty Lake

This is truly a lost summer. We have been on Otty Lake, just south of Perth in Ontario, since July … More

Hot passion and cold lead

Perth: Ontario: It was a Canadian crime of passion.  Messy and old fashion. That’s what the people say. How memorable … More

What a wonderful world

In retrospect, I blame IGY. Or rather Donald Fagen did. And who knew that my favorite jazz-rock fusion guy would … More

Cross and double cross

Impressive things I saw on my trip to Russia in the summer of 2017. The Kremlin. The Hermitage Young couples … More

Graveyard of ‘heroes’

(Wrote this in the summer of 2017 for the Gainesville Sun. Still relevant today.) Stalin’s got a busted nose.  Shattered … More

The spinx and the water

ST. PETERSBURG: This is a city of grand palaces and colorful onion-domed Russian Orthodox churches, of giant mosques and fortresses … More