Equinoctial Thoughts
March 19, 2023
Of my threescore years and ten, sixty-five will not come again. … More Equinoctial Thoughts
Category: writing
Elemental Norfolk
December 30, 2022
I wrote this poem a number of years ago, after we started spending a couple of weeks over the turn of the year in England. It was one of my first published works. Earth Lane and common, heath and ploughed ground Lie frozen underfoot. The lands Decline to the sea: downland and saltmarsh Diked and … More Elemental Norfolk
Writing Beowulf
December 3, 2022
I was rather at loose ends. Until I remembered a project I’d half-considered earlier: an adaptation of Beowulf. … More Writing Beowulf
A Convergence of Deadlines
November 14, 2022
I shouldn’t be writing this: it’s procrastination, pure and simple. … More A Convergence of Deadlines
Drawing a Squirrel
November 4, 2022
This week I made a list of all the things I’d like to do. … More Drawing a Squirrel
A free book!
February 15, 2016
Right now I’m offering an e-book version to anyone who is willing to add a rating or a review to Goodreads. … More A free book!
Just How Connected do I Need to Be?
December 17, 2015
How often a day do I actually need to check Facebook, Twitter, Google+, my blog pages, and e-mail? … More Just How Connected do I Need to Be?
Spaces in Togetherness
October 14, 2015
I haven’t been writing much recently – either in the blogs or on my novel, or in any other genre – and it’s taken me a while to work out why. For a number of reasons – mostly to do with house renovation work – when I’ve gone walking, I’ve gone with BD. And as … More Spaces in Togetherness
Finding Space
September 24, 2015
As I gazed at the space and enormity of the grasslands, an unrealized tension eased. I felt an inner expansion, the loosening of constraint. I could live down there, I thought, suddenly, fiercely, wanting it. I could lose myself in that land, below that sky, in all that emptiness. … More Finding Space
Free Expression
August 17, 2015
I really didn’t want to spend more money on software…. … More Free Expression
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