It’s all moon phases, inner tides & secrets of life with women: there’s just no way we can manage all that power without melt-downs, chocolate & sunflowers

I wrote this in 2007 during the run-up to US elections. Here are a few things Ann Coulter was quoted as saying: “If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat president. It’s kind of a pipe dream, it’s a personal fantasy of mine, but I don’t think […]

February 25, 2010 (Letterdash) A thought bubble has been forming for a while – today it rose to the surface and broke. I started to remember the things that I hated about racism and prejudice as a child, teen and as a young adult. I hated how racism made people so lazy mentally – it was too […]

(repost from Letterdash) Walking and taking the train are more than just exercise and a mode of transport for me, they’re spaces of alone-while-not-being-alone time for me, time to mull over the events of the day, time to just think. Not so much lately, but it used to be a great dream-with-your-eyes-open gap for me […]

Still only the beginning of winter, the days of a late-rising sun and dew-frosted grass; A sudden memory of how delightful it was to leave a trail of footprints on such grass – for a kid in Africa it was the closest I’d ever get to snow. Trains of thought have no schedule and this […]

Stuff I’m thinking     (Initially posted June 2009 on Letterdash) So.  I opened with a hint of deeper things to come last time round – and I’ve been skulking round the edges of blogland wondering how the hell I can avoid delivering. Well, I can’t – or else y’all will never take me seriously ever again, right?  This may […]

He had no sense of humour, she had no mercy: in a world of beauty they found one another and set about making little oppressors. What they didn’t understand is: the tighter you hold them, the further children range. And so, by accident, they raised secret artists & comedians.

It’s a Monday afternoon – a clear blue-sky day with vacuum-cleaner dry Berg wind conditions that leave my skin feeling stretched and my eyes dry. I’m playing mobile phone games on the train while I wait for it to pull out of the station – it’s one of the old trains, and in the set […]

Running for a train on the eve of our last elections – you’d think that my mind would be burning through the issues, scoping the crowd, trying to figure which way it’s all going to go. You’d be forgiven for imagining that I’m thrashing out some last-minute arguments to post on the walls of various […]

Down below the little schmo heard thunder rolling across the cloudless sky of burning blue, but no sound came from his parched lips.                                                                                 *—*—*—* The rejuvenated god thundered off, literally, leaving the young god staring after him. Still he had no answer.  He walked, his head bowed, wondering what to do next – wondering […]