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The Kaleidoscope and the Microscope 18 Aug 2013 | 03:51 pm
My body had died and only my head and two hands were alive. So what can a head and two hands do when that is all there is of you? The head can think and the hands can move, you could imagine a world ...
I Miss Me Hot Flushes! 17 Aug 2013 | 01:52 pm
Mum! They're changing me treatment, me hot flushes have gone! With side-effects missing, it all feels quite wrong. Mum! There's nothing to kid me this thing's on the run without a small heat wave to ...
Teaching the Kids to Cheat 16 Aug 2013 | 03:29 pm
We took the kids to the beach for a week. My brother, having lost his wife, came too. We thought the kids might have a role to play, and so they did, they played along just fine and asked us for the b...
I am far less visible in Bloggoland 15 Aug 2013 | 01:24 pm
than I was when I was far more visible than I am now. Furthermore, numerous kind -- and tactful -- fellow bloggers have given me opportunity to tell why, and although I have been very moved by your co...
The Original Dancing Bear 14 Aug 2013 | 01:22 pm
Spirit Bear from Wiki Commons This is the bear not forced to dance, for this is the bear that was born to dance, this is the bear that brought the dance to a race called man that had yet by chance to...
A Funny Thing 9 Aug 2013 | 03:13 pm
In a week or so children in the playground will flee before him like chicks before some predatory bird -- or stutter to a stop transfixed by threatening looks. Now here he comes, the new alarming dep...
The Boys Run a Dolls' Slave Market. 6 Aug 2013 | 08:14 pm
Against the fence are dolls arrayed: rag or china, wood or bone, never a doll stands there alone, and in their hands are signs displayed of what you might give to make one your own. Role model X stan...
A Love Poem 2 Aug 2013 | 03:18 pm
Remember how we were? Not always hearts and flowers and sunshine through the trees. The clichés sometimes missed us out, but that first handshake fast became two hands of friendship -- and the start o...
Two Poems 31 Jul 2013 | 01:29 pm
Where To? With our new technologies, awareness of the pitfalls of attempts to re-tune nature, new understandings of the ways that nature works, we should be heading for a new age of enlightenment. I...
Conversation Piece 28 Jul 2013 | 04:10 pm
Too far-fetched by half, it seemed, to those whose births had been less public, that you could bolt a man together. But so he'd been; assembled there from six steel bars, their eyes by turns amused a...
