Michael Walker

REFLECTIONS: Memento Mori

I don’t know about you, Dear Reader, but I can remember the worst day of my life as if it… Read More

5 years ago

REFLECTIONS: Keeping it in the family

Some twenty-five years ago, or thereabouts, my wife and I commenced our efforts to try to improve things on the… Read More

5 years ago

REFLECTIONS: A moving experience

Dear reader, this piece is unique in that it is written with one reader in mind. I feel moved—nice choice… Read More

5 years ago

REFLECTIONS: The World at our Feet

So there we were! We’d had our much-anticipated mystery meeting with the American publishing house and had been informed that… Read More

5 years ago

REFLECTIONS: Frankfurt

It must have been 1971 when we first attended the Frankfurt Book Fair at the invitation of our Swedish publishers… Read More

5 years ago

Reflections: Living Under the State

It was way back in 1969, I think, that this particular episode took place. I had been working in Sweden… Read More

5 years ago

REFLECTIONS: Seven decades and more

These Reflections, it now strikes me, will eventually cover seven decades or more—he writes hopefully—which coincide with the length of… Read More

5 years ago

Reflections: Childish Things

Most of us, hopefully perhaps all of us, change immensely throughout our lives. Some equate this with maturing; as we… Read More

5 years ago

REFLECTIONS: Smiles and tears

Way back in the 1970s, we spent several weeks each year as holiday guests at the Halcyon Days Hotel outside… Read More

5 years ago

REFLECTIONS: Fellow Travellers

I suppose that when you travel as much as I once did—and by “much” I mean up to 200 days… Read More

5 years ago

GETTING TO KNOW YOU

A new inter-active series of programmes from IETV to engender pride in our nation by promoting literacy and local general knowledge. Read More

6 years ago

A-Musings – Perfidy

I’m off to Holland, or as the country is officially titled ‘The Netherlands’ next month to see my dear old… Read More

6 years ago

AMUSINGS: The First Time

People sometimes refer to events in their lives as ‘life-changing moments’ but I suspect their lives never really changed, for… Read More

6 years ago

A Time of Innocence

I suppose it’s one of those legendary signs of old age coming on, the onset of senility, but it appears to… Read More

6 years ago

A WOMAN’S SONGBOOK: Creative Ensemble Unveils New Stage Production

A Woman’s Songbook is a snapshot of the lives of four contemporary Caribbean Women, challenged by life, love, choice and… Read More

6 years ago

A-M u s i n g s – Corruption in High Places

I recall a high-profile Saint Lucian opposed to relations with Taiwan referring to corruption in Taiwan but failing to mention the… Read More

6 years ago

A-M u s i n g s – Dealing with Climate Change, Taiwan Style

I happened across this information in an inflight magazine; I think it was Dragon Air’s, one of the airlines that… Read More

6 years ago

A-M u s i n g s – Spiders & Flies

There are other things to life than politics. Mary Howitt wrote “The Spider and the Fly” that could conveniently serve… Read More

6 years ago

A-M u s i n g s – Doggy Time

Calling a woman a bitch is pretty offensive, to say the least. It implies she is unpleasant, unreliable, scheming and… Read More

6 years ago

A-M u s i n g s – Man’s Best Friend

Every now and then, as I drive along, I notice some, what shall I call him, vagrant perhaps, down and… Read More

6 years ago

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