Category Archives: Mistakes made me this way.
International Cervantino Festival….and a hilly place of frogs?
So Mexico is still tingling all my senses and making me glad I decided to up sticks and move all this way to teach English and explore an incredible country with such a rich heritage. So after asking many of my students where I should visit I have acquired a […]
Culture and Companionship
So here I am, in Mexico City, with my days spread out with teaching (including removing small Mexican boys stuck on tree branches) and cocktails on a 6 storey high rooftop bar overlooking the cities many skyscrapers whilst watching Black & White movies projected onto a screen that hangs from […]
Mayan Magic…
‘CULTURAL HERITAGE BELONGS TO ALL OF US. ITS CARE AND RESPECT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY’ A few days ago I had the pleasure of a tour around the central district with some excellent people who knew where to find mouth-watering taco’s and tantalising tequila that begins with a sip of tomato, […]
Musings from an airport….
So I did it, I made the move to Mexico for at least a year and when I saw the amethyst hued sky on my arrival at MEX I knew I had made the right decision. The colours, the smells, the sounds’. Even though I have arrived at a time […]
Not just a Scientist…
I may have named my puppy after my hero but there are numerous reasons that Aldous Huxley has a special place in my heart and soul As a pioneer in the use of Mescaline and LSD he was a firm believer that both substances could be used to open realms […]
Trust your eyes?
Can you ever trust your eyes? Apparently not. That is a painting my friends, not a photograph as I had originally believed. Michael Gaskell came to my attention when a close friend recently showed me the magical painting this impressive artist had portrayed for the upcoming movie ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ created […]
Junk – A book you can’t judge by its’ cover.
Teenage fiction? If you Google the outrage of parents across the country when Melvin Burgess published ‘Junk’ you’d be surprised that he sold any copies at all. Yet even with the major controversy it went on to be a best-seller, translated into numerous languages and even adapted for TV. So […]
Tom Narwid
Arizona has always been my favourite state, after being fortunate enough to have the pleasure of visiting several times the awe that increased as I silently watched the passing landscape had struck me with such fervour that, if possible, It became my Utopia. Slightly strong words you say? Sometimes a […]
Candy – A bitter love.
If ever there was a tale so evocative and truthful about the heady, confusing and blissfully peppered moments within young love, then it is Candy. But don’t let the name fool you, for this fable is far from sweet… Candy and Dan, a couple stitched together by heroins warm embrace […]
Demand and Supply – Thomas Demands latest exhibit.
There are many German stereotypes banded around today, it may have been many years since the massive negative connotations of the World Wars were founded but stigma is still rife about this industrious European country well into the 21st century. Apart from the general ideas of typical Germans being well […]
