A friend recently gave me Arthur C. Clarke’s novel The City and the Stars. On the first page, he wrote the dedication: May your path also transcend the cycles that stifle progress. The novel is about how we can trap…
This is a film of my poem “Color Me Into the Sky,” written for the Vocal poetry competition, which had the theme color poetry expressing the self. It was an interesting competition, not the least of which for the minimum…
I stumbled upon the work of Kavita Bedford in a newspaper article. She’d written about the launch of her latest novel, Friends and Dark Shapes, but the article was just as much a love letter to Sydney – a city…
When I was younger, I read many of the books of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a man considered to be one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Prized for his literary style – Fitzgerald has been linked to the…
For the last few weeks, I have been working on a new project creating YouTube video essays. The essays are all derived from existing and hopefully soon new content of my blog New Intrigue. They will cover a range of…
Ten years ago, I tried to read Norwegian Wood, a semi-autobiographical novel by the author Haruki Murakami. I couldn’t finish it, but for some reason, the first few pages stuck with me. The book begins with Norwegian Wood, the Beatles song,…
What does it mean to get lost in the dance? I arrive late in the evening. She opens the door, half shocked that I’m even there. We sit in different chairs with Japanese food between us. Sushi, fish and some…
A few weeks ago, I had the chance to interview Jonas Altman, author of the newly released Shapers: Reinvent The Way You Work and Change the Future. Altman, based in Canada, has done a remarkable job of dissecting where we…
Imagine that you’re a doctor and that your patient has just died on the operating table. Now, you have the difficult task of telling the family the bad news. You’re an expert in medicine but you have no knowledge of...
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