A Virtual Love
Hmm, this site seems to have been on autopilot for a while now. What’s going on? Well a few things. First, summer. It’s a fleeting thing in England,…
Monday morning inspiration
“Truth is not an unveiling which destroys the secret, but a revelation that does it justice.” —Walter Benjamin (via Crazyhorse Journal)
Monday morning inspiration
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.” —Charles Bukowski…
Monday morning inspiration
“Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.”…
How chimps mourn their dead
I was just going through some old magazines and came across a fascinating article in New Scientist – web version here. It describes how chimpanzees were observed carrying…
Monday morning inspiration
“Writing is easy. You just sit down at the typewriter and open a vein.” —Red Smith (On reflection, not sure if this…
PLR petition
As a follow-up to my recent post about the threatened cuts to the Public Lending Right, I was happy to get an…
Monday morning inspiration
“I write a little every day, without hope and without despair.” —Isak Dinesen (For this quote, and a few others I’ve used…