When Reading is Part of Your Day Job

And in a heartbeat, reading had morphed from being a solely leisure activity into a necessity.

A Narrow Squeak and a Jolt of Reality

While we’re all still intact, we have to make the very most of it. And live each day to the full. And say I love you to those who matter while we can.

Blind Literary Date

I liked the novelty of not knowing. Liked the adventure of turning those first few pages to see what time and setting we were in. Discovering the style of the writer and, gradually, the genre of the book. The premise, the theme.

A visit to the World Trade Center Museum

One little girl had won her trip in a competition. Her tattered library card is among the artefacts.

Queen Elizabeth ll – and why I’m happy she has long reigned over us

There will, of course, come a day when we will bury our Queen, and with her a vault of experience and goodwill. I for one, unless she outlives me, will be very sorry to see her go.

September – Licence to Buy a New Pen

As I sat in Starbucks drafting this blog — on paper with pen in hand — and contemplating our migration from graphite to graphics, I did wonder whether any other generation will ever experience as many different kinds of writing implement as we have.