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 | 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...
by JGD | Aug 30, 2012 | Observations
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 yet...
by JGD | Jul 20, 2012 | Observations
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 estimated 2 billion in...
by JGD | Jul 10, 2012 | Observations
Whilst reading a post debunking the Paleo Diet, I came across a link to a post on National Geographic about ‘Blue Zones’ which is a term coined by Dan Buettner for the regions on Earth with the longest life expectancy, disability-free life expectancy or...
