Reflections on Haiti

A few months ago, after an entire day of time wasting, I was about to delete my Facebook account. Twitter had been binned already, and as I searched for the ‘delete account’ tab, the status of a female friend caught my attention: “Thinking of Haiti tonight and grateful for simple pleasures in beautiful Vancouver.” Haiti? [...]

Space Monkey

Are you worried?

A couple of middle-aged ladies knocked on my door this week, and as I opened it they asked me, “Sir, are you worried about the trajectory that the world is taking?” And without waiting for a response from me, “Have you noticed how all of the things that man has created are beginning to crumble [...]

Juggling Hand Grenades

I recently spent a week in Pembrokshire, West Wales, in a cottage that was accessed by a two-mile dirt track and had no electricity or phone service. The inhabitants consisted of myself, an assistant who was breaking a rather long and heavy dependency upon Marijuana use, and a very good friend who had been distant [...]

Saying it like it is

I rarely look up to people (I’m not being literal here, though I’m 6ft 4) in the way that i do with Jamie Oliver. It seems to me that below the laddish, cockney veneer lays a man who cares passionately enough about his subject to put his neck on the line and to say it [...]

Life is a dance or nothing at all.

Never fall in love with safety!