I was born in Congo (Manono 1958) and left when I was two years old (independance conflicts).
I'm a woman, I have two grown up children half Nigerian.
I stopped teaching French, English and history to early pubers ten years ago.
My parental roots are in Belgium, Flemish part, rural close to Louvain, although my grandmother from my mother's side was from the French speaking part. I live in Louvain (university).
I've always written stories and poems. For one novel, I'm still doing research and I hope it will be published, translated into English and then filmed. We have a Flemish proverb: 'being crazy doesn't hurt'.
Another story in the making is SF : 2050 in Belgium.
Nature and the organism behind it fascinates me more than the homo sapiens. Don't ask me why.
Also history, archeology, intact cultures, actual human conflicts and much more, déjà vu, or not.
I've read most of the Bröntes, Fennimoore Cooper, Defoe, Thomas Hardy and much more in English.
I watch BBC, CNN (news, documentary). Three books of Dawkins are gathering dust. Sigh!
I'm kind of a hermite but in social contact according to my entourage, very sociable. I agree.
Music : opera and jazz and old African music from the fifties.
I also breed African weavers (Ploceus and Euplectes).
Thu 26 Jan, 2012 09:32 am - We only know a LOT about what we want to know and in function of what is already known. What we want to know mostly stays within a boundary of thinking systems that are influenced by local culture,... (view)
Wed 28 Dec, 2011 07:37 am - I agree. A long day it will be and what is happening during that day?
Sciencentific research and its constructive applications might stagnate in an atmosphere of a particular way of thinking. And... (view)
Wed 21 Dec, 2011 08:27 am - It is too late. I ordered it already in my bookshop. It's going to be an edition from Every Man's Library Classics because they have the book available. That's fine.
Rabelais and... (view)
Mon 19 Dec, 2011 04:27 am - I looked up a few things. It's 'lillibullero' (more on Wikipedia).
I'm going to order the book. I read 'Supplément au voyage de Bougainville' from Diderot... (view)
Sun 18 Dec, 2011 04:52 am - I don't mind.
The words 'primal fear' are not well chosen, I admit. Or I repeat what has been said many times over.
I only try to develop my thoughts at my own pace.... (view)
Sat 17 Dec, 2011 09:42 am - Line contends that the Blueprint essentially would "require students to believe that humans ... evolved from primates such as apes and ... were not created by God."
I had this thought... (view)
Tue 15 Feb, 2011 11:58 am - Thank you, Ceili
I had the impression the den was a deep hole in the flank of a hill or a mountain.
I thought that the cubs are born during hibernation period. That the female bear... (view)
Tue 15 Feb, 2011 11:52 am - Thank you very much, Sozobe, 'gradual process' is what I overlooked.
I had the impression the den was very much dark because of the snow.
Beautiful pictures!
Thanks a lot!
I... (view)
Sun 13 Feb, 2011 08:40 am - How is it possible that bear cubs are not blinded by the daylight and/or the reflection of the sun on the snow when they leave the den in april-may?
Are they not even half blind? Don't they... (view)
Mon 20 Sep, 2010 11:38 am - I'm late , I'm sorry.
'Cannibalistic' and 'suicidal'... are terms applicable on homo sapiens. When we become cannibalistic or commit suicide, we don't... (view)
