The other day I overheard someone "bah-humbug" Christmas. It startled me really and got me to thinking - what does Christmas mean to me? I grew up a Christian - went to Church and all, plus I had more than a little exposure to Eastern philosophy and religion as my father was a follower of the Hindu religion. And now I'm a Scientologist. Take away all the commercialism of Christmas - it is looked upon

I’ll take adventure however I can get it. Sunday, Grant and I decided to move my catamaran to his place. The reason for this was that we could leave it in the water for some of the time and wouldn’t have to go through battling the mast every time we wanted to go sailing. We decided to do this a bit late in the day and with the time change it didn’t leave us much

I've been meaning to write a few words about my mum for a while. It hasn't been easy to confront. She died in February and it took a while... We had a reception at my brother's place a few days after mum died in February and the four of us with much difficulty said a few words. I knew it would be very difficult for me to speak so I borrowed some words from a

Watched a German film last evening called "In July" German with English subtitles. I'm not always thrilled with subtitles, though I generally prefer them to dubbing. I wasn't long into the film when I failed to notice whether I was reading anything at all. Perhaps it's all my years being around Dutch and German. Also, it is a very visual movie. Loosely based on Shakespeare's comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream, the "lovers" wend their way

Mom died at 2 o'clock, this morning  (Tuesday the 20th of February). We we with her to the end. She went peacefully in her sleep. I'll miss her like crazy. I'll put some more info about her here over the next few days. I wrote an article earlier about things she taught me in photography.