Apologies to my readers as it’s been a while since I posted anything, but I have had quite a lot going on in the past few months, which I’ll explain briefly here – however as I am departing today (finally!) for a three-week trip to Japan, I promise to write a review of my tripContinue reading “Update on novel and upcoming Japan trip”
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THE GIFT OF REST
Just as the Earth needs a period of dormancy before she can resume her profligate exuberance, so we as her creatures also need to receive the gift of rest so we will be revived for the next season of growth, life and development.
Storycraft Analysis: Margaret Atwood’s “Isis in Darkness”
The final reference to light (knowledge) in the midst of darkness leaves the reader lingering with him in the place of shadows, tasting with Richard the full bittersweet remorse of sacrificing one’s own art to a shadow occupation (in his case, as a literary academic).
POLAR EXTREMES
We may have time to learn a lot more about the processes that govern Earth’s polar extremes, but will we have enough time to do anything about it should another major extinction event be on the near horizon?
Sun, sea and salsa: the ultimate party + chill groove at Rovinj CSSF 2023
Every year, the annual ‘peace, love and salsa’ (or sun, sea and salsa) orgy that is the Croatian Summer Salsa Festival (CSSF) sends thousands of international dance revellers back to their respective homes blissfully refreshed, rejuvenated and already craving more.
Return of the wild
While the Victorians have a lot to answer for in terms of their endless pushing for progress (among other things), at least they began to smell the extinction coffee long before their present ecological emergency and climate change-denying ‘Luddite’ descendants”
Reflections on my writing journey: from journalist to aspiring novelist
Although I have been writing creatively all of my life, it was thanks to Covid that I finally decided to take one of those novel ideas and sit down daily to bash it out.
Questions for my readers: I need your help!
As this post-new year time of coming out of winter and heading into spring is usually a process of reflection and refining, I’d love some feedback from you on which topic(s) interest you most.
Happy Twixmas! – or ‘Twelfth Night, Or What You Will’
The word ’hovering’ describes exactly what we are doing in this in-between, Twixmas period: waiting for new life to emerge. It offers a valuable time to embrace the silence before words; the darkness before light; the formlessness before shape.
‘Blessed are they that mourn’: A very real calling in a time of climate crisis
Surely, at this time of climate and ecological emergency, the first place we as Christians should be is on our knees.
Small Writer at Large 