Writers often come up against what they term ‘writers’ block’ when they cannot start a book because they have no new ideas or they are in the middle of a work and they do not know where to go with it. They can take as many strategies to get over this as there are writers….
J’accuse
I have noted more and more people accusing others of the very things of which which they are guilty. I noted this in the rise of Jew hatred across the world with the accusations of what the Jewish people are supposed to have done as a group to others and I noted it in the…
Not a New Yorker
I am not a city person at all but all this talk of not being able to affords to live in New York is nothing new … this is what capitalism is all about in America. The system wants people to strive and thrive or sink. there is little room for anything else and if…
Quality Control
One of the problems with POD (publish on demand) is the inability to watch the quality of the books being posted out to readers. I just had a book sent to the writer as a proof – a perfect bound paperback. The glue was uneven on the spine and pages fell out on opening. Absolutely…
amusing
I said to a friend yesterday that we only have 4 freedoms. The freedom to think – with the proviso that education and thirst for knowledge informs all thinking – the freedom of speech which is vital and under attack, the freedom to make money and the freedom to spend money. They said we are…
Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay,
Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay, Her tender herd lay by her: She slept, in murmuring gruntlings they, Complaining of the scorching day, Her slumbers thus inspire. She dreamt, while she with careful pains, Her snowy arms employed, In ivory pails to fill out grains, One of her love-convicted swains, Thus hastening to her cried:…
Why is truth hiding?
When I wrote A Brief History of Lies as an essay over a decade ago I never had any reason to suppose lying in the human community would get worse. Natural growth of lying as more people joined the race I got, but the level of lies within the population has grown exponentially with the…
Libraries
I just took possession of some 300 art books from a friend. They were rotting in a shed (but slowly) and one or two had begun to get mold on their covers. These books span art history and catalogues from the 1970s – 2000. They include paperback which, though I never took an art history…
In a world
filled with fake news and videos that are made in front of computers that can fool you online, with made-up statistics and even invented official organisations or organisations invented for the purpose of misleading, where does one go to find out facts? Wikipedia is trying to promote knowledge and fails time-and-time again. Many papers are…
London
After a week sitting in a lovely house being the adult with a fourteen year old boy I am home. My friend’s son is a funny young man and if he keeps going with his kindness and philosophy he will make a very wise adult … wiser than I was. I guess he will have…