Thoughts / Travel
Where the hell have you been? Who me? Yes you! OK, I know. It’s been a while since I scribbled anything down here. Too busy enjoying the adventure to write about the adventure. The last you heard from me I had made it, through gritted teeth, heavy breathing and growling cramps, to Machu Picchu, Peru’s lost city. From there I flew on to colonial Quito,...
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Thoughts / Travel
To travel is to seemingly cram more experiences, good, bad and downright weird, into 24 hours than you would in your everyday life. Sometimes those unexpected, almost bizarre, moments decide that they will congregate in a concentrated time period. Let me explain what I mean. What I am about to describe all occurred between 6 a.m. on 6th Sept and 6 a.m. on the 7th...
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Thoughts
Here’s a bit of waffle I wrote in Rio bus station while waiting for the bus to Foz do Iguacu a few days ago. I’ll do a separate post about things to do in Rio when the motivation and inspiration to write fully take hold. You know how it is when you sit down to write and the words are stale and uninspiring and send...
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You win first prize and find yourself sitting in front of the only non-functioning entertainment system on board flight UA4 from Heathrow to Houston. You don’t really want to spend $22 on in flight wifi. You can of course still listen to a plethora of amazing tunes stored in your iphone. I literally stopped in my tracks when Perfect Day by Lou Reed came on....
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Thoughts
A new hobby has entered the lives of many over the last few years. It involves checking the latest trends on Twitter. It has become a thoroughly depressing pastime over the course of this year. A tweet by @alex_greenough yesterday summed this up perfectly: “Love how David Attenborough and Bruce Forsyth are trending simply because they’re old and alive” It was retweeted 1,089 times at...
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Thoughts
This week has prompted me to reflect in depth on this wonderful vocation which some have been prone to call teaching. I have at times referred to it fondly as “alligator wrestling” and to lessons, particularly the last lesson Friday graveyard shift, as “feeding time at the zoo.” This week a change has occurred: the alligators have multiplied unimaginably, joining forces with thrashing anacondas and...
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Drawings / Thoughts
One thing I love to do is sketch people who have inspired millions of people through their lives and achievements. This is why I drew Alicia Keys, who has inspired so many people, especially young women. Likewise it’s what drew me to Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King who fought for the rights and freedom of black people, flawed though they were as individuals. There is, however, something that leads me to...
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Thoughts
A brief reflection on writer’s block. Knowing the direction you want that short story to take but being unable to find the words that take it from design to finished product. “The wild animal of creativity, released from its cage, paces up and down in my head. It skulks around in my thoughts and dreams, seeking my mind for prey, my heart to devour. Inner animal essence...
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