A New Year and Enduring Passions
Well, it’s yet another year, and in some ways nothing much has changed. There are, still, many books to read, and many more stories to tell. What was it that the young Tancredi Falconeri said? I look forward mostly to starting a new writing project, perhaps more than one, and writing my regular columns and…
2022 The Year in 25 Questions and Answers
As a way to reflect on the past year, I copied the marvellous Nafisa Akabor‘s 25 questions. Check out Nafisa’s blog and her work on technology, consumer products and innovations, start-ups, smartphones, mobile payments, travel tech and electric cars. 1. What did you do in 2022 that you’d never done before? The stand out thing was…
Digitised Chrome
Old chrome that I digitised.
South of the Border (If you know, you know)
Wupperthal
Wupperthal (again) is close to my heart. I first went to the village in the mid-1980s, as detailed somewhere else on this website, and in my book, Too White to be Coloured Too Coloured to be Black a hybrid memoir. The area north of the Swartberg, beyond the Cederberg, where Wupperthal lies in the Tatra…
Where the river cuts through the city (iPhone Blues)
iPhone Blues
I am a bit disappointed that there is a growing distance between my use of the iPhone and my DSLR for photography. The DSLR is clearly a much better, much more flexible and technically more adaptable which allows for greater creativity, than the iPhone. But, the phone is more convenient; I have it with me…