There is Nothing to Writing
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” – Ernest Hemingway I have not yet written a book, but I have written 600 blogs since January of 2009, and each time I sit down to write I am aware I am revealing a portion of myself. The…
Continue readingC.S. Lewis on the Reading of Many Books
“My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern…
Continue readingThe End of 2013
It is the end of 2013. I have been consistently blogging for five years and this is my 458th blog entry. Some entries have been short, just a quote from someone else’s writing; some have been longer examples of my own creativity. This blog is not restricted to a certain topic but rather ranges over…
Continue readingThe Brothers K
I just finished reading a novel by David James Duncan entitled The Brothers K. If I were to do a review of the book I would, among other things, speak of the evocative language the author uses in many chapters. The opening scene in chapter one is particularly good; also the scene outside the pulp…
Continue readingFollow-up to Recent Reading
One more book recently read: The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. The following sentences are key to the story she tells. “The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.” – Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna. “. . . that you can’t really know the person standing before you, because always there…
Continue readingTo Writers and Bloggers of This World
Writers and bloggers of this world, will you hear the words of Annie Dillard? For those who have ears to hear, this is the life. I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend. During visiting hours, I enter its room with dread and sympathy for…
Continue readingSong Writers
Music is highly personal. Ask a group of people to tell you some of their favourite songs and you will get a wide variety of answers. A friend of mine recently blogged about choosing his perfect music for a long road trip. Although I could appreciate his list and even liked some of the songs,…
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I have always enjoyed cheesy sitcoms when they have created an episode out of some of their greatest moments and blended them all together in a flash-back or dream mode. So, in honour of this idea, I thought I would look back on 2009 through the window of 80 blogs and choose some of my…
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