While there is still time

Do you ever wonder where love goes? Out there in the ether, I suppose Sometimes it burns enough to leave a trace in the air A ghost of me ...

Carpe Diem Is it memory that makes us whole? The question was posed by the ten o'clock news investigating Alzheimer's and stroke, ...

Amazing French band, at the Alliance Française - Yapa. Three guitars and a drummer. Towards the end the audience was standing up and clappin...

Malcolm Gladwell, on a possible reason for the high prevalence of violence and crime (related to personal honor) in the Southern (Appalachia...

One of the most melodious string instruments I've ever heard - the Kora , a 21-string harp-lute used extensively in West Afric a . Kor...

Blue skies, And dragonflies, October. * Photo from Google Images

The nice thing about sharing music is that you sometimes get great music in return - listen to another wake-up song! The Drums - Let's g...

Another Dave Barry classic! "So there are many different operating systems available, each with different capabilities, advantages, and...

Buddy Wakefield performs a spoken word poem, The Information Man. (Received this from a friend) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qv1VImmcYA ...

I didn't really wake up even after a brisk morning walk, have been very tired - but this woke me up!! If you need some energy, here it ...

"I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling."...

From a Lonely Planet guide on Laos, left by some other backpacker, one rainy afternoon in Luang Prabang: "...The Theravada doctrine (of...

Yesterday, 'Shankar', Anant Nag's book on his late younger brother, the very versatile Shankar Nag, was released, in Kannada. Th...

Excerpt from 'Roadside Picnic' by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, the book on which Andrei Tarkovsky's haunting film ' The Stal...

"…And most importantly let them believe in themselves Let them be helpless like children. Because weakness is a great thing And s...