
In deep winter
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. • Samuel Beckett, Irish novelist, short story writer, and playwright [...]

A traveler’s advice
I have celebrated Christmas in seven states and seven countries. Sadly, my family is now gone, wife and child, a [...]

Back to normal
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. • Albert Einstein I have gone from washing [...]

Solitude in Mustang
Up on the roof of the world, people's priorities are different and humanity is saner.

Solace in a sea of tranquility
Unlike the ever-anxious West resonant peace pervades Nepal, writes columnist Henry Bennett, who sought a refuge from the headline-news storm and found it.

Acreage and apocalypse (Hawaiian reflections 2)
What with the looming climate catastrophe, the American Republican Party now becoming the Fascist Party, COVID waves one, two, three, [...]

On Maui and change (Hawaiian reflections 1)
In 1893, President Grover Cleveland sent the U.S. Marines to the Kingdom of Hawaii to overthrow the monarchy. The goal, [...]

Bad gene rising
I have long held the belief that conservatives are genetic mutants. Now, trends in recent science are highlighting actual genetic [...]

The march of folly
You ever get the feeling the world's filling up with bastards? I do. What I want to know is what [...]

The Hybrid in the room
Travel has made me into what's now called a Hybrid, a category whose numbers have been exploding in the past [...]

Losing the faith
I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in [...]