So much for the Christmas catch-up! The plan to blog on all the wonderful exhibitions, films, plays, walks, places, encounters, books, poetry readings, workshops, parties, concerts, gatherings, groups, insights, dreams,… read more →
5th Day of Christmas Catch-Up Blog Gertrude Stein famously said of Oakland that ‘there is no there there’. The opposite applies to Canterbury – there is so much there here… read more →
4th Day of Christmas Catch-Up Blog Another day, another piece of paper covered in my scribbled notes, this time from a workshop I attended at the Freud Museum with Salman… read more →
3rd Day of Christmas Catch-Up Blog I am doing some desk archaeology, looking into the year’s pile of notebooks and pieces of paper. Near the top of the pile are notes… read more →
The day hides the stars. There is so much in this short phrase from The Hammock, a poem by Chinese-American poet, Li-Young Lee. Today I am experiencing it as a… read more →
Here is a poem I love by Anne Sexton – a great one for opening discussion about words in all their mysterious multiplicity … called, simply and complicatedly, Words. This summer… read more →
A long time, no blog. My immediate excuse is that it’s taken me a long time to get this new website up and running. And when I say ‘a… read more →
Hello. I’m back after many months of not blogging, for a whole variety of reasons. There was life before blogs and there’s life after and for some reason, I lost… read more →
I attended the Critical Voices event in Tunbridge Wells on Saturday – an early start, a cold day, too many crisps and a packed programme of talks and presentations. My… read more →
Most Sunday mornings, I cycle home from a zumba class soon after ten. After crossing the railway, I tentatively signal right, cross the traffic, and then follow a path around… read more →