Tuesday 01 April 2025 Just Go!  This mantra has become my rallying cry; even my wife has begun to declare this shibboleth.  And why not?  If you can go, stop waiting.  If you can’t go, go anyway.  The etymology of “to wait” reveals: c. 1200, waiten, “to watch with hostile...

Tuesday 11 March 2025 Bucket Lists sound so morbid, exuding fumes of death; after all, the two characters in Rob Reiner’s 2007 film,  The Bucket List, written by Justin Zackham and based on his own “List of Things to do Before I Kick the Bucket”, which he shortened to “Justin’s...

Tuesday 04 March 2025 During the past two years, the thoughts of travelling more and of experiencing more adventures and of assigning more time to create those memories not only have enthralled me—bewitching me—but also have redefined my life’s purpose.  I wouldn’t call what I am feeling as a “mid-life...

Tuesday 25 February 2025 “If there is any kind of memorial… a single flower, photograph… anything, then that’s the point.  If there isn’t a single thing, then that’s the point, too.  I’m like an investigative reporter.  I need to know either way,” I explained to my wife.  “I might...

Tuesday 18 February 2025 Where to begin?  What should I write today? The past week, my mind has been made to feel dizzy by writing subject ideas.  The problem: choosing one topic over another one.  All are equally good.  Hence, the procrastination. This past Sunday was an important day of commemoration...