A discussion today on the radio got me so agitated I decided the only way to respond was via a written rant. So here it is. One of the people in a political discussion was claiming that violence could

I recently did a free-dive at a place called Oudekraal, a shore-entry dive just a few miles south of Cape Town, on the west-facing Atlantic side of the peninsula. Swimming with seals is such an emotional

Edward Estlin Cummings (1894 - 1962)must have been a heck of a guy. Ex-Havard and the son of a Harvard professor and church minister, he had two stormy and brief marriages (Elaine Orr, then Anne Minnerly

I live in the beautiful city of Cape Town, South Africa (you know, the first city in the world that's about to run out of water - but that's a story for another time). I'm an open water swimmer. It's my

Have you ever considered how massively generous nature is? A watermelon explodes with red sweet water. Try eat one without cutlery and see how bountifully it pours itself down your arms, dripping on the