Zimbabweans, and hopefully the world, are trying to get their heads around last night’s first Al Jazeera broadcast on our region’s gold mafia. On social media, heads are spinning this...
What a bummer, man! That is what we would have said in the old hippy days about a disappointing experience. Like the time the getaway car broke down. Our getaway...
Sometimes I am accused, even in retirement, of being irresponsible or reckless with the little money I’ve got from a lifetime of reporting and writing. Oh, I do give to...
Thinking about things “woke.” It certainly has nothing to do with rising from a good night’s sleep. Definitions of the word are, at best, unclear. Wikipedia says it derives from...
Jamie Lee Curtis just won an Oscar. I knew her old man. It’s probably fairer to say Tony Curtis knew me. To cut a long story short, I had been...
Times are getting tougher. It means we’ve got to squeeze the most out of everything. Not just the toothpaste, but out of all else. At the supermarket I asked a...
The brouhaha over Harry and Meghan ever continues. I just love the ‘vomiting man’ emojis I got when I last mentioned Harry’s book. Now I’ve got to get a word...
Don’t be obliged to read me. My pieces are too long, too wordy and not snippets for glances at on smart phones that you only have the time and patience...
In one of our tropical rainstorms the other day I was twiddling on the net for news from the outside world and had the misfortune of happening upon Fox News...
