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Marching To War
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I once loved a lassie, a bonnie wee lassie, and now I’m marching off to war . VICTORY...
7. Summer Reflections
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The sun blazing down on this our fragile humanity enticing us to the cooling waters of the sea...
My Favourite SFF Audio Books
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There are debates about audio books vs paperback vs digital formats. This post is not about that. Although...
Good Writing
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I recently wrote a blog post about bad writing in current media and decided that this month I...
The Journey Back
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I had to go back, there were ghosts to kill. . I remembered the main street, the bleak...
1917-18 The Year of Hunger and “Farewell to Arms”
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My neighbouring village in Northern Italy enacted the 1917- 18 Year. They called the event the “L'an de...
Experimenting
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Be Brave I’ve been writing seriously for years. The more I wrote (and read the work of other...
Journeys and the Importance of Writing Communities
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My Writing Journey During my formative years, I had spells when I thought I’d like to be an...
And Another One Gone…
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Donald Sutherland is gone. I saw him on stage at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles years...
Pride Weekend, Part 2.
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I’ve never liked my voice. I’m not alone. People, in general, hate their voices. We are simply not...
Pride Weekend
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This year, for the first, time, I noticed the absence of something in June: rainbows. I’d never been...
Bad Writing
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Lately, I’ve been hearing lots of complaints about awful writing. Not mine – people aren’t saying it to...
AI at the G7 with the Pope
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Originating from an informal meeting of finance ministers in 1973, in Washington DC, two years later the G6...
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