Category:Reflections

Short personal views, cultural observations, and memory-based interpretations.

December 31, 2025

This is a one toea coin. It once jingled in pockets all across Papua New Guinea before quietly disappearing from circulation sometime around 2004....

December 26, 2025

Then he stood in front of us - upright, composed, hands clasped behind his back in that unmistakable military stance.

December 21, 2025

Three Pacific carriers, side by side in motion, briefly sharing the same stretch of tarmac. It wasn’t planned. It wasn’t announced.

December 19, 2025

Just off to the side was what we kids called the bowser, or in our own way, baosa. To us, it was a place of...