by Richard | Jan 9, 2011 | Africa, Reflections, Travel, Uganda
It’s late, and I’m tired, and I can’t get back to sleep. So I am up and writing again. Sifting through thoughts that come in the nights, when the day and all of its distractions have passed. I’m back in South Africa again. At last. I arrived...
by Richard | Sep 25, 2010 | Creative Writing, Reflections
‘Today is gonna be the day…” A sign slicing by reports only four hundred kilometres until Johannesburg, before being lost behind me. Lost in the dead flat Free State fields. I’m not checking the mirror today. There’s enough behind me. “Backbeat, the word is on...
by Richard | Aug 9, 2008 | Reflections
I became a vegetarian about a month ago. Well, technically the term is apparently Pescatarian, given that our friends in the sea are not safe from my revised dietary planning. While the general reaction from those I know has ranged from indifference to shock followed...
by Richard | May 8, 2008 | Reflections, Travel
“She caresses me on the quiet nights. Her name is restlessness, and she snuggles warm against my soul.” I have always been a night owl – one of those people for whom midnight is the earliest time that I will consider going to bed. The effects of this...
