http://allanhunter.net/blog Archetypes and Personal Development - the only website make sense of them both Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:05:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes, dear readers, The Six Archetypes of Love is now available from Amazon.com and from other fine outlets, no doubt.  I prefer Amazon because Barnes and Noble charge sales tax in Massachusetts, and Amazon, who are based somewhere else, don't. Amazon also offers a lower 'promotional' price on new books. The ... http://allanhunter.net/blog/2008/09/03/new-out-now/ John McCain has just selected a totally unknown politician with almost no experience as his running mate.  Reactions have been varied, but in Europe it's been shock and disbelief at such an unwise choice.  McCain, at 73, has cancer and his running mate, if he is elected, would step into ... http://allanhunter.net/blog/2008/08/30/politics-and-you-thought-id-steer-clear-of-this-one/ Why is modern literature so often a disappointment? The Guardian First Book Award judge, Stuart Broom, put it neatly this year when he said of the short-listed entrants: “The fiction looks brilliantly varied, but once again it seems to be non-fiction that is particularly ambitious and unafraid of scaling the really ... http://allanhunter.net/blog/2008/08/29/modern-writing/ There has been quite a lot of talk about education, and math and literacy, and then the MCAS, and what we should do about it. Perhaps - just perhaps - if we reviewed education in terms not just of job skills we would make more progress. How about this for an idea:  ... http://allanhunter.net/blog/2008/08/27/education/ It may seem as if everyone's talking about the Olympics but I'll add a few thoughts here anyway.  Much of the focus, it seems to me, is on who wins and on how many medals each country amasses.  Well, it's a competition so I suppose the results do matter. I'd like ... http://allanhunter.net/blog/2008/08/19/the-olympics-win-or-lose/ Several people have asked me more about The Six Archetypes of Love, due out in a few weeks. Yahoo lost my first series of replies, so I'll try again, and if the original responses re-appear then... we'll get twice as much, won't we? What I suggest in the book is ... http://allanhunter.net/blog/2008/08/17/love-revisited/ Shortly I’ll be updating various aspects of the webpage – with any luck at all – and linking it to my new website www.sixarchetypes.com This will be to coincide with the publication of my new book The Six Archetypes of Love, from Innocent to Magician.  Does the title sound familiar?  It ... http://allanhunter.net/blog/2008/08/13/all-you-need-is-love-john-lennon/ There are times in one's life when it seems almost impossible to arrange simple things like a meeting or a cup of tea with a colleague.  Existing meetings and arrangements get changed at the last minute; someone falls ill; someone's father dies; the garage mends the car but fixes the ... http://allanhunter.net/blog/2008/08/12/busy-busy-busy-kurt-vonnegut/ Yesterday I had the inestimable privilege of being invited to a group of my present and former students who had decided to hold an informal writing group and share their work.  The writing that was shared was of extremely high quality, but even more pleasing to me was that it ... http://allanhunter.net/blog/2008/08/08/writing-memoir/ I was in Manhattan the other day and discovered a wonderful small museum, The Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art.  It's everything a great museum should be.  For one thing, one walks in off the baking Manhattan streets and into a cool, serene tea room, where one can catch one's breath ... http://allanhunter.net/blog/2008/08/03/the-monarch-popping-out-all-over/