Soaking up New Orleans: My NOLA Inauguration
Aside from Austin, Texas and a weekend in Las Vegas, I have had no other experience of the US of A until recently, when the fine opportunity to celebrate New Year’s Eve in “N’awlins” presented itself. I am sure like many others before, I speculated upon what NOLA had to offer (NOLA is the informal...
Gender-Based Woes
We gloat in our tribes As though superior Judging the exterior (But this makes us inferior) It is curious to see So much animosity But we create this Not trying to placate this These gender-based woes Cloud our souls Searching for What? A fantasy of expectations Lessen the relations We perpetually seek...
Stoicism: The Key to Modern Day Living?
During the throes of modern life, it is easy to lose ourselves in our daily chores, occupations and moments of liberty. The demand for our time as we get older becomes ever more engrossed by what we are expected to do but these expectations are usually projected onto the situation itself. We fret, we become...
Judge Less, Connect More
Do you ever find it difficult to love other human beings? Not in a romantic sense, that would be a whole other subject matter to explore, more inclined for the therapists couch perhaps than my blog posts. I simply mean whether you encounter internal struggles to rationalise the actions of another individual, based on their...
A Week in the Dark: The 57th BFI London Film Festival
The nights draw closer and the official end of British summertime approaches, which times perfectly with the arrival of the BFI’s 57th London Film Festival. This time of year never fails to excite me, particularly with a programme that ever widens with a delicious celluloid chocolate box to pick and choose from. I proclaim myself...
The Emancipation of the EGO
During a conversation, do you often find yourself waiting to talk? In your last exchange of words, did you really absorb the speaker(s) stories or were you too eager to regale your own news? We all have different styles of engaging with others, none of which are necessarily with any intention of doing any disservice,...
LISBOA
Your children departed briefly Only to return swiftly Enticing me with their journey of smiles So much affinity Though we never met Yet And then we drank in the skies With each other’s eyes In contemplative adoration Of this feeling of elation My feet tread upon your cobbled stones Ears bending toward the...
REVIEW: Prawn on the Lawn
It occurred to me recently that I have never stated prices or budgets for restaurants that I’ve written about. This is not an intentional disservice to the reader, I simply think it is a little tawdry to overcast the splendidness of a meal with a quotation. Much like when I go to meals en masse...
No Questions to Ponder
There is something serene In the gleam of your eye it calms the internal chaos No more questions to ponder as I only grow fonder of a now, somewhat altered status As I drown in your lips Hands pressed close on my hips swaying gently in sync to our hearts Matching...
Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain
There must be many moments we re-live, whether due to failure to learn from experience or the bittersweet nostalgia of familiarity. I raise this topic as it is one I notice within many people, including myself upon occasion (although I would also like to say a tad savvier now). We come to a standstill in...
Epicurean Expeditions: from San Francisco to Austin
Although primarily to reconnect with family and friends, my other purpose to visit the United States was to explore further cuisines and navigate the restaurant and bar scenes. Aside from the travel itself, an integral part of the journey for me is what and where I feed. This break in routine is another opportunity to...
The Need for Sexual Revolution
Sex: a subject historically known to raise hushes and cause blushes whether in regards to your orientation or the reproductive (although sometimes unproductive) function has had a shift. We live in a world where previously abhorred inclinations are now becoming increasingly socially acceptable and depending on where you live (in this case London) you are...