Category: Personal Reflections

Over the two decades when I marked the final examinations for Matriculation, major changes occurred.  In the early years, I was able to port home large bundles of unmarked scripts which I would even pull

It has been close to thirty years since I watched the film The Silence of the Lambs.  It is a day I shall never forget. What led to it was a sequence of events, beginning

At school we had a resident cynic. “One thing I’ll never be is a dentist- imagine looking into people’s mouths all day.” was the least cynical statement I remember him making – he had a

I live in a suburb not far from some of the larger properties in the city.  Situated on the slopes of the mountain that profiles the city, the houses there do not encourage neighbourliness: their

“Timers ready?” I looked to the runners on the other side of the track.  Some were sprinting on the spot, some knees-upping.  Teachers in white shirts stood easily; the starter, pistol slackly in hand, sported

What were my wife and I thinking when we bought 1000 places to see before you die?  We’re over seventy, buying from secondhand bookshops and go every year to the same place for a week’s

People don’t’ ask me whether I believe in God – and I don’t tell them.  It’s not that I want to avoid Bible-punching:  more that I have some anxiety about being able to explain adequately

The events I will here relate from my early years were formative in the development of my personality.  They differ from memories.  Memories are like a man standing on a promontory and looking out on

I doubt many can honestly say they do not want to die because life is simply too enjoyable to miss. What comes with an outlook of such pizzazz will be the bonus of not fearing death. 

Of the Ten Commandments found in the Holy Bible, ”Thou shalt not murder“ is readily accepted by agnostics, humanists, atheists and adherents of religions other than the Judaeo-Christian.  Some of the other commandments are also