It was the decade that started off one year after Woodstock (1969). It was the decade of platform shoes! Saturday Night Fever! Nixon and Vietnam! The 1973 Oil Crisis! Margaret Thatcher! And the movies!
"See, all that we have here is all that we've always had We have jealousy, curses, tenderness and gifts But the plight of a people who have forgotten their myths And imagine that somehow now is all
It's not capitalism's fault. It's yours. Bad choices result in a lost underclass
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
It's not nuclear mutually assured destruction we should be worried about. It's us.
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
