Pa may be seventy-two. But he still feels like he’s seventeen. Not in his bones. Or in his muscles. Or maybe even in his mind. But in the part of him that makes him…him. It’s like the last fifty odd years just happened around him while his being stood still. And that being..that thing that
Monthly Archives: October 2008
1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. 2. Never use a long word where a short one will do. 3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. 4. Never use the passive where you can use the
I didn’t look at her when I said it. When I said “Elsie’s baby done died.” Because there weren’t no point in it. She couldn’t look back. “Elsie’s baby?” “Yep.” “Elsie’s baby done died you say?” “I say.” What I should have said was nothing. ‘Cause sometimes nothing is all anybody wants to hear. “You
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Eunice and Aubrey had been sisters all their lives. That they felt the need to mention this as often as they did – or at all – was a matter of some curiosity for most of the people who knew them. Neither had ever married, though there was a time back in ’72 when Aubrey
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” — Oscar Wilde S and I took a train to Bath to check out Bladud’s pigs and buy jewellery. And to take a stack of photos of general touristy things for a travel article I’d forgotten about. I
Three weeks ago I decided to train for a triathlon (the normal-folk kind…ironmans are for crazy people) even though running and I are mortal enemies and I have exercise induced asthma. But a friend of mine did one on a whim last year (Okay, maybe not so much a whim. He trained for three months
Carve out a time to write and then ignore the writer’s block. Show up to write, even if nothing comes right away. When your body shows up to the page at the same time and place every day, eventually your mind — and your muse — will do the same. Graham Greene famously wrote 500
