“Memory is away of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things younever want to lose.” Kevin Arnold I’ve been thinking a lot about family lately. About how wecommuni...
“Theres much more in any given moment than we usuallyperceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. Whenyou know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.” ...
“We listen to the truth, the memories, the bits made up. We gaze at each other. We eat warm buttered toast. We know that the sun will fall, that the children and the birds will be silent. We know tha...
"The greatest mysteryis unsheathed reality itself."Eudora WeltyFor a number of reasons, people tend to avoid cemeteries. Often burial grounds are either associated with a feeling of loss and ...
"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrels heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side ...
“A writer begins by breathing life into his characters. But if you are very lucky, they breathe life into you.” Caryl Phillips I passed her every evening on my way home from work. No matter the weath...
“Writing can be difficult, but sometimes it feels like a kind of magic.” David AlmondI didn’t study writing until my senior year of college. For the first time in my life I was writing creatively not...
January is a fitting time to test New Year’s resolutions. In Edinburgh, the month is perhaps one of the least inspiring with overcast skies and scarce few hours of daylight. Once the holiday season e...
You are no longer following . Undo?