There’s an excellent article on the prevalence of the trauma plot in contemporary literature in the January 3-10 […]
Category Archive: health
The pandemic cannot last forever. The Spanish flu ended, and so will this. But it’s also true that we’re entering the darkest days of the pandemic, and after two years of it already, it feels sometimes that ‘We’ll be lost forever.’
I’m starting to grieve the idea of going back to normal. Not that I think ‘normal’—meaning the way […]
😀 Grinning FaceThe look you’re able to pull on the first day of lockdown when the daughters who […]
My daughter (the second of four) asked me today whether I was afraid—of the coronavirus and the devastating […]
Our last coffee was had beneath the gaze of Mary, mother of Jesus, on December 17, 2018, some […]
They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, […]
I’m not a teary man, not really. But I’ve wept more in the past few weeks than I […]
The cuttings of Scruff’s extraordinary life are stuffed into a fat, brown leather wallet, along with his personal […]
Burning Belly 