Buddhism might have helped Edgar Allan Poe
If you have had a long-term romantic partner, and you break up, friends and family will often try and console…
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The Baroque Rhythm of Life
This is a post for my friend Eleanor Gray of the Cassettes and Chocolate Milk blog, who gave me the…
Hiding out in your art
Photo of Baby Turtle by FotoDawg / Wikimedia CC BY 2.0 The greatest risk for creative people is the temptation…
A Fear of Failure
What is one of the greatest fears that we have? The writer H.P. Lovecraft tried to tell us that it…
Halloween Listening Party 2017: Gathering wood for the bonfire
I shouldn’t give away all my secrets, but these are a few of the things I am working on for…
The Telling: an eerie short film set in haunted rural Scotland
If any of you grew up being spooked by the strange gamut of British children’s TV series, like Chocky and…
Unfinished Work
I find it incredibly hard to get things finished. It’s not that I lack discipline, but I am easily distracted.…
The gig economy; where do I sign up?
I’ve been spending a lot of time on LinkedIn lately, partly because I became unemployed in January and would like…
Humour and the ‘light touch’ in relationships
Recap on last week’s episode Last week I wrote a post about the intangible qualities of love which was a…
The turn of a friendly card (fate falls in my favour, maybe)
It’s been a long while since I’ve written a music post. When I started this blog many moons ago, it…