Time – a strange thing, mysterious even.
Past time could be yesterday or fifty years ago. Present time which we bumble through now is over in a nanosecond. Future time both fascinates and scares us.
But what if time wasn’t quite what we think it is? What if we had made different choices at various […]
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In summer 2015, I visited the USA and part of Canada. It was seven weeks of hectic fun. In Washington, one of the highlights was a visit to the Library of Congress, specifically the Jefferson Building. It was ‘all kinds of awesome’: the magnificent colourful entrance hall and sumptuous steps, Jefferson’s book collection, an original […]
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Now on eighth day of Saturnalia. The poet Catullus called it “the best of days.” In ancient Rome, private festivities of Saturnalia had expanded to seven days by the late Republic, but during the Imperial period it varied from three to five days. Caligula extended official observances to five. We do ten days in Roma […]
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