This first appeared a long time ago (in 2010) but I like to recycle it at the right time of the year, for those who may not have seen it…Continue readingHappy Halloween…
…and this year I resemble that remark, having had a book banned in the past year. So here’s what I am going to do. To celebrate Banned Books Week,…Continue readingIt’s Banned Books Week…
…in particular, the idolization of creatives (writers, artists, people in the movie industry) who then in one way or another “fall from grace” and then take their entire body of…Continue readingPedestals
Perhaps because of the Olympics which are a particular spark point for national fervour – I mean you literally go there flagwaving, proud to REPRESENT YOUR COUNTRY – I kind…Continue readingAnthems
All my life writing has been life and breath to me (as anyone who evern knew me can attest). Poetry was my inheritance, passed onto me probably on a DNA…Continue readingLearning to breathe again
… so I seem to have accidentally written a book… about cats. About the cats in my life. I launched a quick Kickstarter campaign for it – and the goal…Continue readingCats. Books.
… your “rebirthed” self would have been old enough to drink today. I would have opened champagne. You never lived to see it. Let me explain. On 20 June 2003,…Continue readingHappy Re-Birthday, love…
Two years ago or so, my mother, who was already mostly blind from macular degeneration and was suffering from increasing physical frailty as well as a spiralling…Continue readingMy Mother’s Salt
I’ve wanted to see the Aurora, the Northern Lights, all of my life. I never had a lot of chances – and the one time I came close, on a…Continue readingFire in the sky