I would not consider myself a poet by any stretch of the imagination. Although I am very taken with rhymes. While scrolling through my trove of recent iPhone-tastic photos and, inspired by the late November cobalt blue – sky and the heady aromas of nutmeg scented Glühwein and woody chestnuts, these little ditties just came…
This is one of those rare encounters that could only have taken place in the twenty first century. A few months ago on twitter, on the ‘similar to you’ listing was a very interesting sounding girl living in Vancouver, Canada. It could have verged on twitter stalking, yet luckily it didn’t as we discovered through…
Growing up, many of my friends did not understand what it meant to be a grandchild. Their grandparents had either passed away or were in nursing homes and so they saw them rarely. They never had their grandmother plat their hair or pack their school lunch or have their grandfather wait for them at the…
On a stop over earlier this year en route from Sydney to Berlin, I was once again reminded of the chaos that is Bangkok. I was relieved to read that the horrible recent floods in Bangkok are subsiding and life is slowly returning back to normal. I was recently thumbing through my tatty Moleskines full…