Tips for writing your first book One important decision to make before writing your first book, or second or third for that matter, is to decide if it will be written in the first person or third person. I was typical of most when I wrote my first book. It was about me, so naturally,…
A young friend, who was about to celebrate her twentieth birthday, asked me this question. “What twenty things would you tell a twenty-year-old about life?” After recovering from the shock of being asked this question and knowing that there surely isn’t a twenty-year-old living on this planet who would bother listening to me, I thought,…
My memory of Barry Humphries Barry Humphries has always inspired me. Better known to many all around the world as Dame Edna Everidge, it is the other talents of Humphries that I have most admired. Writer, actor and teller of tales. I wrote the following piece based on the style and my memory of a monologue…
Software update available. Do not touch!! How often do you have a notification for a software update? Often I guess. It’s almost a daily occurrence. But my advice, after my last week of pain, is to ignore these dastardly red flashing alerts, once and for all. Well, until there is no choice. Why? Because unlike the…
Relax, it’s only another financial crisis A quick glance at any newspaper will tell you that we are soon going to enter yet another economic or financial crisis. Yes, yet another one. As always, it will bring on a period of times are tough, things are hard, forget about a welfare card kind of financial…
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A little bit of long forgotten poetry today. Dug out from the past. The Journey I have wandered through my life, Felt the pain of fear and strife, And had tragedies as everybody does. Some times of love and bliss, And at times with one to kiss, But the feeling, of an emptiness, never goes.…
