According to The Guardian: Hillary Clinton emerged as the clear winner from the first debate between the Democratic candidates in the 2008 presidential race – ahead of her main rival Barack Obama – according to those present in the audience1. The article goes on to expound on the great performance by Mrs. Clinton vis-à-vis Mr.…

Ladybugs fascinate me. They symbolise a part of my childhood: running barefoot through fields of tall green grasses and scaling greedily up scabrous-bark clad trees before performing pirouettes on their crawling branches. I once fell on my head, and with the effusion of blood ebbed my passion for acrobatic fancies. I confined myself to terrestrial…

Trying to find my way back; to that road I was walking on. Everything is a haze, a monotonous, all-consuming lull. And I can’t seem to break out of this infernal, stomach-turning madness — an interlude-become-nightmare.

Again, I am reliving that age-old scene: there I am, trembling and anxious, in a daze, consumed by a febrile instantiated dementia, forever erect upon that eternal precipice, teetering. Somehow I never fall, I always manage to retain my upwardness – my humanity – but perhaps now, just this once, I shall fall unto my…

The inveterate melancholic that I am, I catch myself sifting through the memories of the hour car ride that separates Albuquerque from Santa Fe — eternally. The Sandia Mountains, fingertips drenched in frothing snow, greet the arrival with solemnous salaams. The rest, an ostensibly barren wasteland, a flat martian landscape etched into the geographic façade…

Es con nostalgia que recuerdo mis estancia en St. John’s y en Santa Fe. Recuerdo el iridiscente marrón de sus edificios, el fresco del atardecer veranal. También, la dulce lluvia intoxicada de calor y odorífera de lavanda mitigada por el incomparable olor de la tierra humeda. Y todo esto bajo el manto de un sol…

No Internet access at home for the time being. I doubt I’ll pay again the £5 fee to use the hotspot at the nearby Starbucks for an hour; it’s simply not worth it.