specimen posts
September 13, 2006 Evanston: unfulfillable desire
November 30, 2006 Opua: King of Bohemia
February 23, 2007 Evanston: a modest proposal
April 6, 2007 Evanston: nostalgia
May 22, 2007 Evanston: mob justice
June 7, 2007 Evanston: seas of leaves
June 27, 2007 Evanston: THE ILIAD and the evening news:
a second modest proposal
July 2, 2007 Evanston: a writer and an architect
October 12, 2007 Opua: Passchendaele
October 30, 2007 Opua: the sad death of the world’s
oldest individual
November 21, 2007 Evanston: life is only forty years long
January 10, 2008 Evanston: the thing I can’t do:
THE REST IS NOISE
January 22, 2008 Evanston: no regrets
June 3, 2008 Darwin: books of the sea
September 30, 2008 Evanston: swine and fall
November 8, 2008 Evanston: yesterday
November 14, 2008 Evanston: Carrighfergus
December 17, 2008 Evanston: winebird
December 20, 2008 Evanston: the market is an ass
December 31, 2008 Evanston: Copernicus revisited
January 9, 2009 Evanston: departure and thank you
January 24, 2009 Durban: the invisible man
March 29, 2009 Antigua: insurance and change
August 12, 2009 Cambridge: to the dying
November 23, 2009 Evanston: fools
December 14, 2009 Evanston: books that drove me to drink
January 14, 2010 Evanston: degrees of solitude
February 27, 2010 Evanston: the show doesn’t have to go
on
April 13, 2010 Opua: a gannet at sunset
August 27, 2010 Evanston: THE ELEPHANT’S JOURNEY;
THREE STATIONS; and a sexy song
October 19, 2010 Opua: Carrighfergus revisited
October 20, 2010 Opua: a jewel and a toast
March 26, 2011 Opua: shore and time
April 21, 2011 Evanston: Rita Hayworth dreams
August 17, 2011 Evanston: a pretty good MOBY DICK;
solitary trees; the most entertaining movie; “conquest”
August 26, 2011 Evanston: Force Twelve
November 3, 2011 Evanston: landlocked
November 11, 2011 Evanston: 11 ∙ 11 ∙ 11 = 70
January 3, 2012 Evanston: THE HORSE’S MOUTH
March 9, 2012 Opua: a short history of THE HAWKE OF
TUONELA
April 18, 2012 Evanston: the sentimental sextant
May 17, 2012 Evanston: fragile
June 11, 2012 Evanston: Tahiti
August 1, 2012 Evanston: navegar é preciso, viver não é
preciso
October 14, 2012 San Diego: the view from the balcony
November 27, 2012 Evanston: seasons; ‘Carrighfergus
re-revisited
January 5, 2013 Evanston: crying
March 12, 2013 San Diego: resurgam
August 10, 2015 Evanston: vigilantes; persevere