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…
…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
… 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
We all have a cutlery drawer in the kitchen, right? Well, mine is weird. The forks partition has the six forks that came as the set which is in daily…Continue readingThe mystery of spoons