On nearly going back to Twitter

I nearly went back on Twitter the other day. Not once, but several times. One of my very lovely relatives … More

The Year of Living Deeply 29: Specs

At a guess I’ve been wearing them somewhere around the last ten years. Not having inherited my father’s genius … More

Phil has been round. I know this because we came home the other night to find a pack of Toffee … More

Though I know him, his name escapes me. He is really a friend of a friend of a friend, … More

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? You are close at hand yet very far away. So long since I have … More

I love this time of year. There is a wonderful Anne Lamott line somewhere about the welcome of the cooler … More

As the holiday season continues I repost this list of various found poems that I have made over the … More

Some of you will have seen this blog post before. It is a taster of some of the contents … More

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the ‘poets I go back to’ idea, that I first came across in … More

Dear James (may I call you James?) Though it’s been a while (at least ten years, maybe more) it feels as … More

I have been reading Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It For Life recently. In it she asks … More

About a month before my friend Pammy died, she said something that may have permanently changed me. We had … More

A few words about the piece below. I wrote the first draft of it in 1989, a year after the … More

I have just started reading Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit: Learn it and use it for life. Like those other classics … More

As we get to the business end of Lent, in the week the church still names Holy, I have been … More

I’ll admit it straight away: I didn’t last the whole week. Sometime on Friday evening I switched the radio … More

It isn’t often that you read something that you know as soon as you read it has the capacity to … More

I’m hoping that by the end of the week we may be nearer to a political solution to the national … More