Prattle: Ruminations, Essays, Reviews

Sometimes I just get too serious about things.

Ruminations: undirected prattle

Mile Zero

Feeling right at home...

Back home

Scattered thoughts in scattered places.

Life just got a whole lot more interesting.

Beyond Here There Be Dragons

Coming up for air.

Insomnia is a writer's ally.

Mount Kinabalu I

Days of brine and Islands.

Wat's up, Doc?

There's no place like. . .

Tha Tien.

The sun also rises

Hanoi Jane never stayed at The Hanoi Hilton

Turning Japanese, I really think so.

The Circle Game

REBOOT!

Escape from NJ - Part I

Africa-America

The Pearl

The Gate was open, so we passed through

Losin' the sperit.

I still don't get it...

Catching up on some events.

It's not fair.

Such a fine sight to see...

The dustless air.

I need a vacation.

lost entries

Bicycle Country
How to cycle gracefully in China.

Pingyao
The ancient city of Pingyao--one of China's gems.

Going east to get West.
Reflections on returning to a familiar culture.

Essays: directed prattle

An Australian Juggernaut at The Commonwealth Games (Part I)

The Australian Media & Communications Scene

Anaconda II (Part I)

THE OUTBACK EXPERIENCE

The Accidental Farang. (Part I of The Farang)

On the River Kwai.

The Alien Within.

Risking Dukkha.

The simplest society.

On a park bench beside the A-bomb Dome.

Are you afraid of the dark?

sample drivel part one

Vive la difference -- drivelathon part two

A Journey Within a Journey

You should get off the train here.

John, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore...Oklahoma!

Going to and fro.

The Mother Road.

Image and Everything.

Shanghai'd in Shanghai
Capitalist Authoritarianism: throw out baby; keep water.

Courage
On living under pressure, under pressure.

Mogao Ku
China's archaeological plundering by the West.

Reviews & Analysis: critical prattle

FW: Since when do dirt roads have toll boths?

BIFF: 5 AUG 94

Vipassana Climber.

The One.

Death of a Culture

Dreamtime I

The Kalkadoon and the Mitakoodi

Nothing on my mind

We of the Never-Never

Feel good . . .

Fueling the Bonfire.

And the lesson today...

Cowboys and Indians.

Losin' the sperit.

Wrath of the Gods
Roger Grigsby's guidebook, China by Bike.

A one horse town -- without the horse.
Sometimes the Lonely Planet really perplexes.