Lost in Words

When I was at school, there were two sporting events each year that I dreaded. The first was the annual school swimming festival. We were ex...

I decided to find five English proverbs that best describe the writing journey.                                             Free image by Qu...

I am struggling to find the time to read any of the books on my "to read" list.  The struggle exists because most of my spare time...

My experiment with the writer's platform Medium continues. Anyone who is a creative can become a slave to the little bell icon. That lit...

The following article and story can be found on Medium. The Grammar Check   I have, what you might call, a love-hate relationship with gramm...

Well, that looks ominous.  I had finished writing, and I thought to myself, I will stop there for now.  Then I looked at the word count.

So, yesterday I decided to change the look of the blog layout and theme, and I think it now looks better. It has a cleaner look to it, no ba...

Well, I had covid, and I got over covid. At the time, I did plan to do some reading, maybe some writing, but in the end I really did not do ...

43 years ago today, the band Teardrop Explodes released their debut album Kilimanjaro. An unofficial Twitter fan account describes their mus...

I've been meaning to set up a Twitter feed to the blog (I know Musk has decided to call it X, but hardly anyone does, so I think I will ...

I don't think I can be bothered to write about this. Maybe. No. So, here's a nice picture instead.

I was on Twitter (or X as Musk would prefer it) this morning when I came across this picture. The steps of Balamand University, Lebanon. How...

I enjoy a good walk, both for exercise and for thinking.  I find that some of my better ideas come to me, or are developed further on a good...