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Monthly Archives: February 2012
THE YEAR WITH THREE NOVEMBERS
Today, February 29, is a date that occurs only every four years, and is called a leap day. This day is added to the calendar in leap years as a corrective measure, because the earth does not orbit around the … Continue reading
LIFE IN AN OTTOMAN HAREM
You are young and you are beautiful. You have been captured by the Turks after your Balkan city succumbed to a long siege. Your father and brothers are dead. You are terrified you will now be raped and murdered. EUNUCH … Continue reading
A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME …
On the way across the desert last week I passed through a town called Iron Knob. Because I’ve made the drive a few times I forgot, until the place was disappearing in the driving mirror, that people who don’t live … Continue reading
GUEST POST: THE EVER-CHANGING WRITING PROCESS
I’d like to welcome author Natalie C. Markey to my blog today for a special guest post. A native Texan, Natalie is the author of CARING FOR YOUR SPECIAL NEEDS DOG, a nonfiction book that shares easy, everyday advice that … Continue reading
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FEAR OF FLYING PART 2
On Wednesday we were discussing my fear of flying - a phobia about the kind of people who end up sitting next to me on planes. So far we’ve talked about the Drunk, the Ear Popper, the Sickly Child and … Continue reading
FEAR OF FLYING PART 1
I’m moving address on Wednesday. It’s not a major move by Australian standards; just two thousand eight hundred kilometres across the desert. During that time you’ll have to excuse me if I don’t answer comments straight away; I won’t have … Continue reading
ROSES ARE RED
No one knows where Valentine’s Day comes from. There are actually three Catholic saints called Valentine; one of them is supposed to have stood up to Emperor Claudius II, who thought men made better soldiers when they were single - … Continue reading
THE SONG OF BERNADETTE
It is 154 years to the day that a peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous, while out gathering firewood, saw an apparition of the Madonna in a cave called the grotte de Massabielle. Since then the nearby town of Lourdes has … Continue reading
LIFE LESSONS
There he goes. Eighteen years old and really, he doesn’t have a clue. He has such grand dreams and none of them make any kind of sense. He’s left school and got a job in an office in London. He … Continue reading
IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS THE WYRD
You can call me weird. I really don’t mind. In fact if you said I was in the way of the Wyrd, about two thousand years ago, it would have been a huge compliment. It would mean I was - … Continue reading
