The man with the child in his eyes
It would be a lie to say that I have always loved my father. Most boys are much closer to their mothers in younger years, and I am no exception.
Games without frontiers, wars without tears
AS YOU are reading this, at least half of the world’s population is holding its breath, in eager anticipation of the final showdown of you-know-what. It appears that the English
Dreadlock holiday
IS IT already a year ago that we last braced ourselves for the annual invasion of the Algarve, that most beautiful part of the world we have chosen to call
Shooting the breeze
THROUGHOUT THE history of mankind, stories have been told giving birth to legends, and sometimes even hardening into commonly accepted historical fact. Some are remembered, others forgotten; but the action
My ex-wife Pat, the expat (Part twp)
The ties that bind THE SHORT drive to Pat’s apartment, just off Praia da Rocha’s seafront tourist mile, passed in an uncomfortable silence. As the front door of the spacious
My ex-wife Pat, the expat (Part one)
IT WAS a bitterly cold mid-February evening when Russ locked up his Mazda dealership; 5pm was admittedly very early, but Russ had plans – a carefully mapped-out sequence of events
High fidelity
IN RECENT months, newspapers and magazines have been full of articles dealing with the rise in teenage pregnancies, both here and in Britain. The decline of man-kind, a change of
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
IF I had the choice, which would I choose? I don’t know because I have never been afforded the luxury of being able to make such a conscious decision. As
Giving up, giving in
THERE THEY are, my friends and companions over the past two-and-a-half decades, winking at me seductively. Today I am trying to say goodbye, a decision that has been creeping up
Feeling quizzical
MY MOTHER assures me that I spent the first five years of my life driving her and everyone else in my immediate vicinity mad. As soon as I was able