Not sure if it is the sludge of summer, the end-ish flavour of things, the Trump crap which really depresses me and even makes me anxi...

This is just a little parable, but it is a poisonous one. It illustrates how artists take advantage of their subjects, trying to convin...

When I renamed my blog after Harold's professional moniker, I made a vow to myself that I would not write "essays"...

For more years than I can count, I carried a little slip of paper around with me with a few lines of what looked like poetry on it. I remem...

I have a friend - OK, he's a psychiatrist and probably doesn't know anything - who keeps asking me questions about the writing biz...

Heigh-ho! It took me 24 hours, but I just saw an example of. . . irony. Here in my very own blog. The theme of it is supposed to be boldnes...