Antipodes

This is the kind of surveillance camera that I’ve installed near the entry to Gamone: You might imagine that this device has been d...

Maybe I’m exaggerating when I refer to these huge pieces of freshly-shot wild boar as medieval meat. You’ll have to excuse me. My h...

Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a great new light cast by the lamps of Led. Then...

In my house at Gamone, I’ve just assembled and installed two alarm panels like this: The alarm on the left is a smoke detector, whi...

In French, the word for mists is brume . So, the new calendar that was invented in the wake of the French Revolution of 1789 invented the l...

Just as I decided long ago to have nothing whatsoever to do with the childish but pernicious Facebook phenomenon, I’ve always been determin...

There's no doubt in my mind that Richard Dawkins will survive, for he's surely one of the fittest thinkers on our planet Earth. ...

My dog Fitzroy continues to demonstrate his tastes in sculptural forms. These days, I have a large stock of high-quality firewood in the s...

Don’t ask me why I adore this image: My joy is strictly Platonic. The old Greek fuddy-duddy tried to persuade us that Heaven is ful...

It's hard to imagine that a quiet and well-behaved old-timer like me might evoke the possibility of his Viking ancestry. Besides, I can’...

If this tiny video doesn’t blow your mind out, then nothing will: I like to think that all this is happening just alongside our friend...

Four sisters. Forty years. This simple and beautiful pictorial story started in 1975 with a delightful image. — photo by Nicholas Nixon...

Throughout my life, attitudes towards the Jesus phenomenon have been evolving constantly. As a child, I was led to believe that Je...

Environmental activists draw attention to the mortal sin (to borrow a good old Roman Catholic concept) of destroying rain forests as in the...

In the USA, they’re known as French fries . In Australia, we call them chips (not to be confused with the thin dried potato crisps sold in...