Journaled on Thursday, 21st of November 2024 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 27 degrees, hot, overcast, and rainy. Today, everything is officially back to normal. After the G20 summit and yesterday’s bank holiday, Black Awareness Day, the workweek […]
Two Sweaters and a Silent Phone in Rio
Journalled on Friday, 24th of July 2026 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 21 degrees, warm, overcast and rainy. I have just received a message from Julie in England telling me that my mother is not 100%, and that […]
Let Go | Forty Years in Brazil
Journalled on Thursday, 27th of March 2025 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 28 degrees, hot, sunny and slightly overcast. It is Thursday, and I am trying to let go. Let go! How can two little words carry so […]
Opening a Company | A Day With My Accountant
Journalled on Wednesday, 28th of August 2024 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 23 degrees, warm, sunny and slightly overcast. My meeting with Fernando, my accountant, was originally scheduled for 3 p.m., but last night he asked me to […]
Blue Skies, Buried Guilt | A Sunday in Santo Cristo
Journalled on Sunday, 27th of July 2025 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 26 degrees, hot, sunny and perfect blue sky. It is Sunday, and Yasmin is still with me. She will head back to her mother’s this afternoon, […]
Turning 60 in Rio | Family, Loss and Home
Journalled on Thursday, 16th of April 2026 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 26 degrees, hot, sunny and slightly overcast. It’s Thursday, and we’re approaching a long weekend. Everybody is beginning to slow down with classes, though journaling and […]
No Half-Arsing It | A Rio Monday, a 0% Beer Hangover, and the Rule That Runs Through Everything
Journalled on Monday, 1st of December 2025 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 26°C, hot, sunny and slightly overcast. It’s Monday, the first day of December, and this year has flown by, taking time, and a piece of my […]
Rain, Rio and the Buzz of Connecting People
Journalled on Friday, 23rd of January 2026 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 22 degrees, warm to cool, overcast and with heavy rain. It’s Friday, and it’s pissing down. It’s been raining all week, with more forecast over the […]
Swimming, Skipping and the Choices We Make
Journalled on Friday, 20th of February 2026 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 30 degrees, hot, sunny and slightly overcast. It is Friday, exactly one week since my tooth extraction, and today I take the last of the medicine. […]
Heat, Coffee, Cake and Chopp in Leblon
Journalled on Friday, 10th of January 2025 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 28 degrees, hot and overcast. We’re back home in Rio after three days in Paraty, the historic town about 200 km down the coast. It wasn’t […]