Monday Motivation: Of mice and moral conundrums
We’ve just spent three days with friends in a remote village in the Klein Karoo. We were alerted to the plague of fieldmice they’re experiencing when a solitary mouse emerged […]
Monday Motivation: The choice between trumpets and piccolos
In life, we prefer to avoid conflictual situations, ducking out of confrontations, avoiding arguments, generally seeking peaceful co-existence with our fellows. In fiction, by contrast, where [...]
Monday Motivation: Embrace it: you’re a sadist and a masochist
I bet you’re a kind and compassionate person. You might not be an animal lover, but you’d never be wantonly cruel to a mutt. You don’t taunt homeless people as […]
