January 2019 – Ragbag Mind

Honour

HONOUR And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honour. -last line of the Declaration of Independence Falstaff: Hal, if thou see me down in the battle, and bestride me, so; ‘tis a

Happy New Year

Jan 3, 2019Toby TompkinsEssays

There were two bars in Hochdorf. Both of them were on the ground floors of a couple of square gray stone houses with slate roofs – there was nothing picturesque about Hochdorf – but one of them boasted the village’s only neon sign, which proclaimed simply BAR, in red letters that flickered a little. It