Helmet Head

I was tidying up one of my motorcycles for spring, and I read the label Mr Honda had put on the gas tank of this, and several million other such motorcycles.
It said: ‘Conserve nature’.
Fair enough. A nice ‘green’ message. Good.
Below it was the same message in German and French, and in each case [...]

The level of debate….

I’m not sure if anyone else has noticed the level of debate around the Health Care bill. It seems to have devolved to some rather ugly name calling and irrational hatred. And this, mark you, is between our elected officials, for at least some of the time. Of course there are always [...]

Health Care

A friend of mine, who supports the Health Care bill, received a Facebook email from a third party that said “Look what you and your stupid democrat party have done.”
I was interested by the logic. Any time someone uses the ad hominem argument I pucker my lips. Calling someone ’stupid’ is well, simply name-calling [...]

The Health Care vote - at last

This morning’s news about the passing of the Health care bill was a huge relief. I’m not, actually, a big fan of many aspects of western medicine, but I am a fan of human beings. So, when a ‘health care system’ routinely refuses to insure people who are ill, and thus condemns them to [...]

The Hurt Locker

I saw ‘The Hurt Locker’ last night, and I can understand, now, why it took so many Oscars - and in my view it deserved to take a couple more, too.
I could go on about how it combined all the best elements of documentary, Memoir, and great film-making, but they would all boil down to [...]

Memoir - Eileen Caddy

I’ve been stocking my brain and imagination with memoirs, and I recently was given a copy of ‘Flight into Freedom’ by Eileen Caddy.
You may not know who Eileen is, so I’ll say that she, along with her husband Peter, followed their intuition and inner knowing, and created, over a period of years, the organization that [...]

Memoir - the past is rarely over

One of the things about working on one’s memoir is that it becomes forcibly obvious to each and every writer that the past is never over. It shapes who we are, and how we react, and how we make our lives work. Even when we’d like to think the past is safely behind [...]

Kitchen Kvetch

My dearly beloved has been out of town for a few days (promoting her book ‘The Confident Creative’ which you can see on www.theconfidentcreative.com) and that left me with the cooking.
I’m a moderately competent cook if I put my mind to it, in a basic kind of way. There are occasional forays into exciting [...]