A Path Less Trodden
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Musings and ramblings
Live fast, die young
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...
Lives of quiet desperation
'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...
To a Passer-By
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....
La Dolce Vita
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...
Freeing the child within
Although through force of circumstance I am very much a peripheral figure in their lives I'm fascinated by my two grandchildren, One is 3½ the other 1½. They love to play and have fun and the oldest is a proper boy, boisterous and fearless, the younger has...
The plight of the reindeer people
My Mum always used to say that things have changed far too much. She was born in 1925, so she did see some dramatic changes in her life time. Most of those changes have been positive, but the explosion of the world's population from an...