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Doing Paperwork

I read with sadness about the four police officers who were murdered while drinking coffee in their morning coffee shop, yesterday.
Yet, obsessed with words as I am, I could not help noticing that several reports said the officers were sitting ‘doing paperwork on their laptops’. Um, does anyone else feel this is odd? Paper is [...]

On a bicycle built for two…

I’ve up-loaded several videos to Youtube (drallanhunter is the name of my ‘channel’) of me on my 78 year old motorcycle. Some of you may have wondered what that has to do with Memoir writing, archetypes, or anything of that sort.
Matchless
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcEUgtKfQaQ
So I shall explain. There are many ways to travel. One can slip [...]

Our words shape our reality

Phrases and words have their own history - and sometimes it’s not what we think.
Recently someone signing off an email to me wrote, ‘Toodle-oo!’ and then signed it. ‘Toodle-oo’ may sound like fun, but actually it’s a corruption of the French ‘A tout a l’heure’ meaning: see you before too long.
What’s wrong [...]

Memoirs - words have them, too

Often I find it useful to look behind words to find out their history, because they have lifestories also, which - if we know them - are eye opening.
Take that much misused word ‘deadline’. We use it all the time to describe the time some piece of work is due. And some deadlines are [...]

The New Book; Write Your Memoir

A couple of people have asked about ordering copies because Amazon.com doesn’t have the book listed as released, as yet. I’m not sure why that is. I have a supply of copies for friends and family on my desk, but they’re for, well, friends and family, and I only have a few left. [...]

Of Mice and Men

Cleaning behind a door today I found two mice huddling together. They were obviously juveniles, and seemed very sleepy. So I found a piece of cardboard, slid it under them, and deposited them gently in a cardboard box. They continued to huddle.
Curious about this behavior I took a closer look. [...]

The New Book is here

It’s available from findhornpress.com and from Amazon (of course) and will be useful for Christmas…..
It has endorsements from Carlo Gebler, Suzanne Strempek Shea, Connie Griffin and others - all people who can be relied upon to know quality when they see it.

Books ahoy!

Alright, allow me some shameless self-promotion.  It’s the American way, isn’t it?  Copies of Write Your Memoir; the Soul Work of Telling your Life Story will soon be available.  All two or three days. I just received a notice that my author’s complimentary copies are on their way, which is a pretty good sign that [...]

“After long silence, at last, something…”

I’ve been quiet for a couple of weeks now, and it’s because I had the flu.  Yes, I got the vaccination, and promptly fell sick; sick as a whole pack of dogs.  I recall that last time I had a vaccination, seven or eight years ago, the same thing happened. At that time I also [...]