by JGD | Sep 20, 2013 | Lifestyle
This is you life. Do what you love and do it often Borrowed from...
by JGD | Jan 15, 2013 | Observations
I’ve struggled all of my life to conform. I come from the ‘live fast, die young’ rock and roll generation that eschewed all notion of being a responsible grown up and instead embraced a path of hedonistic pleasure, self destructive behaviours and a...
by JGD | Dec 28, 2012 | Observations
‘Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.’ So said the American writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau. Most of us start our adult lives excited by the infinite possibility that life offers us,...
by JGD | Dec 9, 2012 | Poetry
The street about me roared with a deafening sound. Tall, slender, in heavy mourning, majestic grief, A woman passed, with a glittering hand Raising, swinging the hem and flounces of her skirt; Agile and graceful, her leg was like a statue’s. Tense as in a delirium, I...
by JGD | Sep 12, 2012 | Observations, Travel
I’m writing this sitting in my rented apartment in Florence. It’s beautiful and handily placed to walk to all of the attractions and usefully has a roof terrace with views across the city, just the place for a glass of chianti and a smoke. I seem to go for...
