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The enforced isolation of the last few months has been a time for taking stock. Our relationships, the nature ...

The youth was about 14 or 15. My age. He was running for his life. Naked, except for the torn remnants of a sa ...

I was playing outside our home in Sri Lanka when the military Jeep roared up. There was a bullet hole in the ...

A couple of chaps were driving around on a Sunday evening looking for toilet paper - they were planning on cor ...

It was only a few weeks ago, but it seemed like we were living in a different age. My local grocery store had ...

As regular readers know, I spend the month of January in South Africa escaping the worst of the northern hemis ...

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