Enough is Enough – Black Lives Matter
Artwork from postermywall.com I am white. I have two children of mixed race. Their father is African American. I have benefited from white privilege all…
Lockdown: rules and other non-essential activities
Photo credit: Steven Williams Lockdown. We’re all in it together. I think. Everyone's lives will be forever changed by events that are out of their…
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Sea Changes, New Normals and Other Clichés
Snow Changes, Two Normals Reality and fiction are starting to merge. Had I started reading Lionel Shriver's 'The Mandibles' a few months ago it would…
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Taking the Plunge
Fully prepared to take the plunge... I have just sent off my first speculative email to a magazine commissioning editor. When I say first I'm…
Will There Always be a Rainbow after a Storm?
Rainbow over Windsor Castle We like to believe that every cloud has a silver lining and after a storm there will be a rainbow. We…
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There’s another storm coming…
There's another storm coming. There's always another storm coming. Sometimes they're relentess, one after the other. And sometimes they appear out of nowhere after a…
Hello and Welcome
Writing - it should be so easy. One word after another. You just need a subject and off you go. Sometimes the hardest thing is…
