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My yearly solo city trip has started this morning and I’m sitting in the train, reading up on blogs. The first blog I clicked in the discovery is for the girl who needed a hug today. It’s the words that my head was trying to form but...
The repeat examination period at Maynooth University has begun. In fact the first papers were sat yesterday (5th August); the period goes on for ten days or so, I will have four different papers to grade, though I’m expecting only one...
Celebrating 25 years of blogging with gratitude, reflection, and a sweet slice of success surrounded by creativity and joy. August 6, 2001, 25 years ago. I started blogging. I had a website made by Microsoft FrontPage and hosted on GTE...
Continuing with the music challenge: 22: Cool Summer Night Drive + Windows Down + Stereo Turned Up = This Song I immediately thought of Brandtson. A lot of our friends were fans and I have fond memories of driving near and far to see...
Sword and Shield: If you could get sustenance by buying big bags of dry human kibble, you would. Long sword: You have an attention deficit. In the sense that you want others to pay more attention to you than they currently do. Great...
I read the Dutch translation, translated from the French by Eveline van Hemert. Available in English with the same title, translated by Ros Schwartz. Girlhood is rough, and being a woman is not much easier. Don't express this, don't do...
Photos: © Stan B.I still wake up giddy most days, two-thirds of a year in, retirement has certainly not lost its sheen! Don't know if a return to employment will mar the scenery at some inopportune time hence, but for now... One of the...
In His Words, Bread & Roses Theatre What would you do if you were cast in a play only to discover that it was written by your ex and about your relationship? That’s the central premise of In His Words, and Esther (Heather Woodhouse)...
A generational gasp… Image by Author, created in AI. Note: This is a snippet from a much-longer tale that may or may not be (I change my mind every day) the last entry in my short-story book-in-progress. Setting the Scene: Two employees...
For those of you who are interested, my new novel Radical Magic comes out on 1st September, and it’s available for reading and requesting on NetGalley right now! It is 1808. In Great Britain King George’s health is precarious. Magic is...
A better day today. Did H car making 90 to date. Cleared all the rubbish out of the labs. Cut the squares with scythe by the fruit trees.
London, drawn A Isometric NYC appears to have started something of a trend. In the last few weeks alone it has inspired both Isopolis - San Francisco and now London, drawn, another sprawling AI-generated city rendered in the style of a...
Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto...
My blog disappeared from the web for close to 24 hours this week, which was a shock and a worry. Google removed it for breaking community guidelines, something I strongly dispute 😀😀😀. I asked for a review, and was re-instated without...
Here are two pretty nice photos from Main Street, USA - undated, and probably from the early 1960s.Here's Vesey Walker and the Disneyland Band performing in front of the Opera House, which was not used for much until the sets from "Babes...