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One Tricky Spider – Anansi
Readers will have figured out by now that I have soft spot for anthropomorphic animals. (And if this news comes as a surprise, you’ve come to the wrong blog site!) One of the first such characters I came across in my childhood was Anansi the spider. I can’t recall exactly how old I was when Read more
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North of 60
I have written before about the genesis of my writing career (post my public service career, that is), specifically why I employ the fantasy genre (July 29 and Aug 12, 2020), why I use animals to tell a story, why I anthropomorphize them (Aug 26 and Sept 9, 2020) and what’s important to me in Read more
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The Civil Servant
“If all that has of late been said against the Civil Service be true, it must be in a parlous state. We hardly know which have treated it worst, its friends or its enemies; that is, if we may venture to consider that it has friends. Its enemies are numerous enough. We meet them in Read more
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Swift (as in the bird)
On July 29, 2020, a story appeared in the New York Times (NYT) entitled “The Mysterious Life of Birds Who Never Come Down”, written by Helen Macdonald. Ms. Macdonald is a naturalist, historian, Research Scholar at Cambridge University, writer, illustrator and narrator of BBC radio documentaries and contributing writer for the NYT Sunday Magazine (in Read more
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Death and Life
It’s here at last: the fifth volume in The Ravenstones series. Death and Life will be released on Amazon next week. Death and Life picks up the story of our two principal heroes, Eirwen and Fridis, exactly where they left off in Book 4, Gains and Losses. After early successes, significant reversals have occurred. The Read more
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10,000 Hours Makes Perfect
Malcolm Gladwell is well-known for his ability to sift through the chaff of daily life and subtleties of economics to find the grains of wisdom lying hidden inside. Amongst the many subjects he’s written about is the notion of developing an expertise in something through hard work and discipline – 10,000 hours of practice to Read more
