My Kingdom for a Knee!
I’ll trade my right toe for a good left knee My nemisis Smiling with 600mg of ibuprofen Baboon TLC Oh, my poor left knee, my trick knee, and my great weakness in my impervious health.In second grade the trouble started when fell and split open my knee-cap on a gutter,…
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Don’t believe the Ngorongoro Crater hype Vervets love the Landie African Road Hazzards The Ngorongoro Crater is a majestic act of nature to behold, for it’s the world’s largest perfect caldera, or collapsed volcano, with a perfectly circular and steep rim encircling a flat valley floor filled with all of…
Read MoreHumble on the Plain
Its all Natural in the Serengeti My Fearless Leaders The King of the Road Baboons are family too It’s alive. This sea of grass that extends as far as I can see is alive. Every square inch, from the dung beetle that is pushing her prize ball past my foot,…
Read MoreOrphans Are Lonely
The real loosers in the ‘new russia’ December 16 (AFP) via Johnson’s Russia List Street kid numbers soaring in Russia MOSCOW – Homeless and hungry, life for 14-year-old Yury Krekovetsky in Moscow is no easy street. But the adolescent would still rather take his chances in the Russian capital than…
Read MoreIs Yeltsin ‘The Man’?
We are all waiting for The Man Johnson’s Russia List, Monday, 12 Oct 1998 Waiting for the Man By Will Harte It is just after eight in the evening and already another bright fall day in Russia has slipped into darkness, lying down to await the lover she knows will…
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