A Year in Monchique 2 – You stupid boy! – September 2018
Having made it through the wildfire, I woke up feeling surprisingly optimistic. In the quiet of the night, I had decided to press on with my new life. What is
Is It Just Me – The time of my life
So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell? Blue skies from pain? Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil?
Water, water ever rare; and not a drop to waste
The once-abundant resource of potable water in north and central Portugal is under pressure from the combined exigencies of industrial and commercial activity – especially in the mining and “quality”
A poem for the end of 2024
When thunder flashes and lightning claps The icicles grow upwards from the taps And point to a sodden, saddened sky from whence The coldest rain fulfils the earthly floods Restoring
Obituary – John Barry Edward Goodfellow
June 14, 1944 – December 7, 2024 It is with deep sadness that the family of John Goodfellow announce his death in Faro hospital on December 7, 2024, following a
Reflections upon goodwill towards all
Ebenezer Scrooge, the protagonist of A Christmas Carol, was perhaps the leading economic minimalist of Dickensian times. From rationing the coals that burned in his clerk’s grate to his consumption
Did You Know? … Two Christmases in 1924
Thinking about today’s commercialization of Christmas had me reflecting on how different Christmas would have been for my great-grandmothers, one in England and the other in Portugal, 100 years ago.
What I learned about friendship from teaching yoga in bad Portuguese
I spent the first 20 years of my adult life in Philadelphia. Philly is a special place. It’s a city of neighborhoods. The neighborhoods are made of row homes. Living
Wishing you a safe, sane and soulful new year
Making our way slowly to Christmas and poised on the edge of a new year, some among us are waiting for the big fella to deliver the goods and make
Off Grid and Ignorant in Portugal: The big plan for a second life … and why it’s all about wine
We started the Google search with escarradeira, then moved on to cuspideira and then we started calling people. A few hours and many phone calls later, we realised we weren’t