My birthday last year coincided with what was celebrated (in the USA) as ‘Mothers Day’. So, because I am the first born, that day was also the 62 anniversary of my mother becoming a mum. Typically, in my chat with […]
My birthday last year coincided with what was celebrated (in the USA) as ‘Mothers Day’. So, because I am the first born, that day was also the 62 anniversary of my mother becoming a mum. Typically, in my chat with […]
Wise people have told us over and over again: “The first casualty of war is the truth.” Another wisdom to which General Eisenhower contributed by asserting planning is essential while proposing that plans are useless is: “No plan survives contact […]
There’s so much to say about my wish for 2020. Anyway, while I ponder how to bore you all with that, here’s a wish for a 2021 that makes its predecessor look like a blip in all our lives. So, […]
Pondering what seems a growing reluctance to do a very right thing; only to follow that with grudgingly offered apologies. Simply say “excuse me”, with or without an appended “please”, and I’ll happily oblige. However, it seems you would rather […]
“If you haven’t enough respect to give to both your mother and me, I suggest you give all to your mother.” I need to tell a story… At the start of the 20th Century, a woman was born to a […]
The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) incursion into Sierra Leone’s capital in the early hours of Wednesday 6th January 1999 must be remembered. However, remembering the invasion only for the death and destruction visited on the city feeds the risk of […]
Just over forty-seven years ago, while sat on a barber’s chair near the Freetown (Sierra Leone) East End Police Station, I saw half a dozen men in red shirts kick to a pulp a bloke dressed in green. So brutal […]