I have been rising before dawn lately, and watching the owls returning from their nocturnal labors. This is not something I have seen before and I am amazed and moved. They Continue reading →

As usual it is the dog who teaches me the subtlest language of the place. I am not the most brilliant bulb in the history of the galaxy but I do Continue reading →

One day, a long time ago, several people in what was then Ceylon, Charged with finding ways to confound and frustrate the Japanese, Hit on a plan to release hundreds of Continue reading →

Recently I was standing in the delicious dim of a museum I had not savored since I was a small boy, many years ago, when the dinosaurs were young; I was Continue reading →

Who almost certainly did not call himself (or herself, I could not bring myself to quite that level of examination of the deceased, gender identity is complex enough while you are Continue reading →