... musings from a distance ...

Afghanistan is a war-torn country, and has been for 30 years. It has been described in the many conversations that I have had of late, as a ...

The 40-mile stretch, a breathtaking chasm of mountains and cliffs between Kabul and Jalalabad, claims so many lives so regularly that most p...

We are all on a journey of some description and since arriving in Afghanistan , it has been a series of conversations; sitting in on meetin...

Ah! How beautiful is Kabul encircled by her arid mountains And Rose, of the trails of thorns she envies Her gusts of powdered soil...

Finding the strength and the energy to deal with the many changes surrounding a person is never easy. I am, by all accounts, not exactly the...

From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spri...

Mainly for the reason that I have been slightly less disciplined in my leisure reading this past twelve months (though I have picked up othe...