The sight of the blue ocean meeting the horizon of a lighter blue sky is still strikingly beautiful as it was when we moved to Anguilla BWI nearly a year ago. We endured mosquitoes inflicting hives about an inch wide. We adapted to the suffocating heat and humidity without using one drop of electricity for air conditioning all year long, and still slept at night. The hero of our journey is Kiki our german shepherd. She loves the water and can't wait to run on one of the thirty-three splendid beaches, nearly always deserted, the island offers.
When I retired from my profession of general surgery November 2013 to take a job as a Professor with St James Medical School, a Caribbean Medical School with a Campus here in Anguilla, I though it was going to be a 9-5 job. Well, it's a lot more. First, I had to master the subjects I was to teach to the point that I could teach them flawlessly, but then there were quizzes and tests to be made, printed, proctored, and then to be graded. All this takes time.
The good part is, we are dealing once again with young people. People with lots of energy, in fact, I had forgotten how much young people like drama. They could all be actors, except that then we would be left with no one to take care of patients, make breakthrough discoveries and, well, teach!
Only lately I found the time to E-publish my YA novel, Ashenland, with Amazon. My passion for the ancient is still there, and I'm trying to spread it around. Through Twitter I found several people interested in myths and legends, but I actually would like to connect with book lovers who are interested in ancient discoveries, such as Troy, or Mycene, or the Sea People....
We always think of the nations living at the edge of the Mediterranean Sea as being disconnected from each other, always warring each other, but there is plenty of evidence that they also communicated with each other, worked for one another and shared their cultures.
You're welcome to send me your comments, and, of course, to check out Ashenland at Amazon.
