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Walking by
Sitting at my office desk and looking at life outside, I ponder my past and the people I’ve met. I wonder where they are and what they may be doing right now. Maybe it sounds foolish, but it’s a way I’ve found to reassure myself about my choices. The way the afternoon sun bathes the […]
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Chavez, Evo & Fidel
I read a few days ago that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez managed to get an extra year added to his third term as leader of the South American nation. I can clearly see where this is going. For those who understand Political Science, it smells like dictatorship at its best. Dictators always fascinate me, because […]
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50 book challenge
I am thinking of joining the 50 book challenge, promoted by my writing group at Shelfari, next year. The idea is simple, the challenge less so: To read 50 books within a year. It is not impossible, but is extremely demanding. I have also to accommodate my monthly editions of National Geographic (and university-related books, […]
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A Common Word
If the unprecedented global protests over insulting depictions of the Prophet Mohammed in a book, newspaper or a papal speech tell us anything, it is that Muslims around the world can act in concert without following a leader or sharing an ideology. While such demonstrations might possess a local politics, in other words, they are […]
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Borrowing Books
I recently a bought few books and placed them into piles to read. That’s what I do… Accumulate books, read them in order of arrival then place them on my bookshelves (in no special order of importance, just size). We had friends over last weekend for ‘Petra’s girls gathering’ and a good friend asked if […]
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Killing Marvin Gaye
Listening to George FM today, I heard the worst interpretation of the late Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing”. George FM, who normally entertains me with amazing tunes, isn’t the first or last to destroy legends. I personally have a theory that great artists cannot be imitated. …It is what makes the likes of Aretha Franklin, Louis […]
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Falling
… The sound of a hungry cat is not the most desirable way to be woken. It was loud and sharp, announcing the beginning of my week. It was Monday again and the weekend was just not long enough. As I lay there in my warm bed, without moving a muscle, I was faced with […]
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All The Things Not Said 