The full famous quote from Frank Herbert’s “Dune” has Lady Jessica murmuring, “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings obliteration. I will…Continue readingFear is the mind killer…
’tis the season. Merry Christmas, and all that. What have I been up to? well… this is a bad time of year. Ever since that pathetic pile of wrapped presents…Continue readingWell. Merry Christmas.
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…