Things are not always as they seem
Tonight I attended an event at Vienna’s Amerika Haus: WHY DOES UKRAINE MATTER TO THE U.S. – AND WHAT IS AT STAKE FOR EUROPE? A discussion with NOLAN PETERSON, Kyiv-based… more
Just Breathing
Try as he may, the Ugly Amerikan can´t kill off all the mockingbirds, and Plastic Betrand can´t avoid his pact with Mephisto, to name but a couple of the gang… more
Ça plane pour moi!
As I watch how Austria´s Chancellor and the world´s youngest leader has progressed from the boy his parents mentioned to his unofficial biographer as one who leapt into the water… more
Just one of 20,000 plus
After two months in Australia touring the south-western part of the continent and enjoying some quality time with family in Melbourne and Sydney, and a quick jaunt to visit writing… more
Best wishes for the festive seasons
and onwards into 2018 which hopefully will have more empathy. more
If you thought only Miley had a wrecking ball…
It may be because I´m thinking about new projects like learning how to crimewrite and to write in German that I´ve begun to see and smell a rat here and there.… more
Somebody in Clifton loves me, and an Aussie abroad
I´d never heard of Clifton until I kept seeing the place as a permanent fixture in my analytics. Clifton, New Jersey, USA: a sleepy town whose only claim to fame seems… more
Demise of the Dinosaurs
Don´t call it America. America consists of two land masses. North America is not just the United States of America, which has recently morphed into the Ugly States of Arumpasaurus.… more
C’est la rentrée
It´s been a while since I blogged. A lot´s been happening. There was the great inaugural Flash Fiction Festival in Bath at the end of June which, apart from some super… more