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Joan Didion (2005) The Year of Magical Thinking.

Posted by celticman on Fri, 23 Feb 2024

The Year of Magical Thinking has been an international bestseller, been reprinted over twenty times and is perhaps the best-known of her books. The subject she specialises in is death, which we’re all familiar with, but nobody seems to want to talk or write about it. In Duncan Williamson’s short story Death in a Nut , Jack (no relation) lived with his mother in a cottage by the shoreside (Williamson was born in a tent on the shores of Loch Fyne...

Story of the Week, Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point 23 Feb 2024

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 23 Feb 2024

Not an easy task ever and this week is no exception. Poem of the Week RhiannonW’s Titterstone Clee (533m)16/02/24 was very fine, as was seashore’s deeply moving Killing the Killers . However, from a personal point of view, I always like to see writers stretch themselves, go places that don’t normally go with their work, do something different. With that in mind,this weeks Poem of the Week is Jack O’Donnell’s sweetly charming Tilly cut loose from...

WTF?

Posted by TJW on Wed, 21 Feb 2024

The good news: IRS has accepted my federal tax return. WTF news: I'm being refunded $2. Ain't enough for a gallon of gas. Guess it's better than owing and I don't have to worry about the state cause there is no state tax in Florida. Still, $2!!!! Definitely worth the hour it took to file. WTF!?

WE ARE ONE

Posted by memphis on Wed, 21 Feb 2024

We Are One Never have you ever, been an unknown: Your very presence arouses those animalistic instincts . Ravish and torn, in a demoralizing taste clocked in Surveillance storm chaser: always under its radar. Uniquely as you are; so near yet so far: could the Bleeding dry on an open canvas, as stars fall from The sky. Even if an outcast by choice or society Force, chosen to go it alone you’re never on your own. For who we are, you are, they are...

Amy Cuddy (2016) Presence Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges.

Posted by celticman on Tue, 20 Feb 2024

Amy Cuddy (2016) Presence Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges. I usually give books like Amy Cuddy’s Presence short-shrift. Fake it till you make it seems to me like pebbledash. Yet it works and she shows her workings. How and why it works. She traces her ideas back to polymath William James, who helped to develop psychology as a subject of study outside philosophy, or perhaps inside? ‘Begin to be now what you will be hereafter...

John Vaillant (2023) Fire Weather: A True Story From A Hotter World.

Posted by celticman on Mon, 19 Feb 2024

John Vaillant moves from the taiga of The Tiger to ‘thinking like a fire’ in the boreal forests surrounding Fort McMurray (Fort Money) in Alberta, Canada and the evacuation of its almost 100 000 residents in May, 2016. His argument is that these fires can no longer be considered the exception to the rule, but the rule itself in an Anthropocene warming world we have created by our increasing use of fossil fuels which destroys our planet. A...

Element of Distortion

Posted by memphis on Mon, 19 Feb 2024

[ELEMENT OF DISTORTION] Heed, light separating from light, giving form to darkness ever co-exiting. It was once a rumbling throughout the Heavenlies. Arch-angles displays a uproar: Battle for primacy, warlords usurp estate, dominion causing an unbalance overflow. Slithering faceless. serpent, night stalkers, day walkers, midday talkers: millenniums subliminal messages, archon, aliens, Ufo; contending within a battle galactic celestial orbiting...

Beastie: A gritty and hard hitting novel set in 1970's Scotland by Jack O'Donnell (ABCTales celticman). Out Now!

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 16 Feb 2024

I'm very pleased to announce the publication of our very own celticman's new novel Beastie A gritty and hard hitting novel set in 1970's Scotland. Decimalization, dole queues and The Troubles in Northern Ireland brought home to a Clydebank tenement. Teenage swaggerer: Chaz Sweeney seizes the chance to get out and make a name for himself as a big man. Angela, aged four: Her mum can’t protect her. Her only friends Pizza Face (Chaz’s brother) and...

Only the face has changed!

Posted by philwhiteland on Wed, 14 Feb 2024

For more years than I care to remember, I've been using the same publicity photo for all my written work, wherever it appears. However, there comes a time when you have to accept that you're in a 'reverse Dorian Gray' situation, whereby you are getting increasingly decrepit but your photo remains the same! Don't get me wrong, I'm very fond of my publicity photo. It was taken on or around the time of my 50th birthday. We had some unused credit...

Re-up

Posted by TJW on Tue, 13 Feb 2024

It has been confirmed that I am qualified (age, years of previous service, category of discharge) to enlist again. I served active duty and had an honorable discharge and my age is within the range. Think I should re-up .

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