While there is still time

Arc by Amy M. Clark My seatmate on the late-night flight could have been my father. I held a biography, but he wanted to talk. The pages cl...

"Do you read a lot?" "A little. Being read to is nicer." She looked at me. "That's over now, isn't it?...

Towel Day is celebrated every 25 May as a tribute by fans of the late author Douglas Adams. On this day, fans carry a towel with them to de...

Beautiful song and video - heard it first in 1997 thanks to our dear friend Claude, a big fan of Brian Eno, who sent me back from France wit...

"It goes beyond just keeping in touch; as many people assert – you don’t have to talk with friends every day in order to remain close. ...

"Toumani Diabaté is one of the most important musicians in Africa. Toumani plays the kora, a harp unique to West Africa, with 21 string...

“…..But with Sparky [Charles Schulz, creator of Snoopy comics], it’s a sense of being abandoned, a fear of abandonment, that he’s talking a...

"The American assumption was that children were happy, and childhood was a golden time; it was adults who had problems with which they ...

My father told me once that when he was about twenty he had a new girlfriend, and once they stopped by the house on the way to somewhere, ju...

".....The only person who had every really asked her questions was her husband, and that was because love is a constant questioning. In...

Walking on the road, you pass so many people. Some look confident, purposeful, well-dressed, well-maintained. But the majority appear so ord...

Arvind. Little brother from university days, dragged down by the whirlpool in the blue ocean I so loved. Who died because the warden and VC ...

30 Oct 03, Thursday One morning while driving down the busy road from M Circle, I notice this man on a bike moving very slowly in the fast-m...

As we grow older we develop long sight and have difficulty seeing what's near. But in matters of the soul, perhaps it works the other wa...

Sitting alone on a rocky coast one calm grey monsoon morning, watching poor fishermen cast their nets into the sea, wait patiently for hours...