The Call of the Wanderer In 1990 I left England and did not return for 16 years. It wasn’t just a holiday; it was for work. I got a job in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and we had to hand over our passports to the employers. I’m sure it was not legal, but it was… Read More How Archetypes can be the hidden drivers in your Life
There is so much to say about Cuba it would fill a library. I have been there three times since 2015, visiting Havana, Cienfuegos, Santa Clara, Varadero and now the more remote Cayo Guillermo, in Ciego de Avila province, an area praised by Hemingway in his book Islands in the Stream (1970). Some countries get… Read More Six Reasons to Love Cuba
Last time I was at my mum’s house, we got talking about all the places I had been. “Well, I’ve kept all your postcards.” “You did?” “Yes, they’re upstairs in a brown envelope.” I ran upstairs to get this envelope and tossed them all on the carpet at random for closer examination. I’d completely forgotten… Read More Post Cards from Everywhere
Pale Fire: Four Cantos (1962) by John Shade, is a book that stuck in my mind and will not dislodge. It first appears to be a commentary on a 999-line poem in rhymed couplets for dedicated students of literature. The commentary that follows is apparently written by a literary critic, George Kinbote. If you have… Read More The Pale Fire in Nabokov’s life
Anyone can use their imagination, right? Or can they? First, they have to know they have one in order to use it. Yours might be a bit rusty, and in need of an upgrade, or it can be finely-tuned and hyper-reactive, but more often than not, it can be so blatantly under your noses that… Read More IMAGINATION: the Image Work of Dina Glouberman
