In “Windows On My Worlds”, Ronald Mackay supports his belief that nostalgia promotes the wellbeing of both author and reader. Nostalgia uplifts us in times of greatest need

His stories grow from observation of lives over seven decades, his own and those of others.

Born during World War II, he identified early with the moors and mountains of his native Scotland. In 1960, he found himself penniless in Tenerife. Undaunted, he lived and worked with the farmers and fishermen of Buenavista del Norte, learning Spanish and the ways of Canarios who have long wanderedthe Old and New Worlds.

In 1967, the British Government recruited him for a post behind the Iron Curtain. His self-reliance, initiative and his training with the Gordon Highlanders, suited their needs. After two years in Romania and Bulgaria, he undertook assignments in Singapore, Denmark, Israel, and other communist dominated countries.

In 1974, he accepted a post in Mexico. Two years later, an assignment toQuebec, took him throughout Canada and its Arctic. As relaxation, he farmed in Ontario.

Later missions took him to Central and South America, the Far– and Middle-East, the Indian subcontinent, South East Asia, and Africa.

In 2002, he married Viviana Galleno. Together they spent a decade helping runagricultural enterprises in her native Latin America, and enjoyed summers on Rice Lake north-east of Toronto.

Having moved to the Netherlands in 2022, they spend winters back in the Tenerife of Mackay’s youth.

Ronald is the author of Fortunate Isle, a Memoir of Tenerife, The Kilt Behind the Curtain, and A Tenerife con Cariño. He is writing a Cold War spy novel.