Category Archives: Memoir
GOLD AND GUNS IN EDEN Part 1 of 4
For a month’s respite from new blogs I am posting a memoir dissected into four A Memoir from Western New Guinea (some names have been changed) There was a message waiting in my office from an unidentified caller. Jacob was … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, nature
Tagged Chief Eulay, Elsham, Grasberg Mine, Indonesia, Irian Jaya, New Guinea, West Papua
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Passchendaele
Whatever the etymology of Passchendaele, the little Flemish village sounds to me like “Valley of Passion” in English. In 1917, it was a valley of mud and cordite, steel and fire. The dirt was burned and scoured of life, except … Continue reading
Lady Marion Fraser
A light went out in Scotland on Christmas Day. Marion Fraser passed away. In a cynical age we have low expectations of “virtue” in our public figures whose ranks often seem unattainable except to those with the privileges that come … Continue reading
How British Dentists Created Heavy Metal Generation
At my first dental examination in North America the Montrealer with a deep knowledge of the ethnography of decay leaned back from my chair and holding his pick aloft declared, “You have British teeth.” His tone was grave, like a … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Memoir
Tagged Alice in Wonderland, amalgam, British dentistry, caries, Mad Hatter, mercury, National Health Service, tooth decay, tooth extraction
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The Berkeley Thanksgiving
It will be missed by no one on this side of the North Atlantic that Thanksgiving Day 2016 falls on Thursday. Yet, some Virginians mindful of another tradition already had their Thanksgiving a fortnight ago. They resent the hegemony of … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Seasons in Virginia
Tagged Berkeley Plantation, Captain John Woodlief, Good Ship Margaret, Lyon Tyler, Nibley Papers, Thanksgiving Day, Virginia
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 