@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] A long-standing friend made an interesting and, I think, somewhat accurate observation about me recently. He noted how I spend a lot of time fretting about casually meeting certain people to the extent that if I...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] And just like that, it’s all over — kind of. Within a couple of days of each other, both England (just England initially that was, not the other UK nations) and, more shockingly, a heretofore extremely...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] I’ve generally been reluctant to leave Bogotá during Colombia’s tourism high season or at long weekends. So the first holiday Monday of the year is a negative on both fronts. However, feeling...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Thanks to a means-tested health system and with my parents — seven children in tow — deemed too well off to receive government assistance, the idea of going to the doctor for the slightest — and...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] While I don’t think I’m at the same obsessive-compulsive level as Melvin Udall, Jack Nicholson’s misanthropic character in the 1997 film As Good as It Gets, I can get rather annoyed if certain...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] To borrow from John Lennon — and many others besides — another year is almost over and a new one is about to begin. Hitchens hit This is always an apt time for reflection, for taking stock of one’s...
@wwaycorrigan It’s our Quiz-mas cracker (see what we’ve done there?!) edition of IQuiz «The Bogotá Pub Quiz», Bogotá’s top trivia night. And while nothing beats being there (honestly, it’s better played live, competing with others in a fun, lively...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Considering Cúcuta is my most-visited Colombian city — with Bogotá being home — it’s been a bit of an oversight that I’ve never written a dedicated piece about the Norte de Santander capital....
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Ten years ago today, sat in Bogotá’s popular Cranky Croc hostel and based on advice from an Indian friend I knew from my Belfast days, I started a Google-hosted blog. Google blogger, my acquaintance told...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Much has been written about various «new normals» in our lives in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic. The enforced pause on people’s modus operandi has led many to re-evaluate their situation. Getting...
