A few bits and pieces I’ve written . . .
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Needles and me
Word rapidly spread around the high school that one of the girls had an “empty.” Her parents had gone on holiday and left her alone in the house. Trusting her to look after their most… more
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Same ol’ same ol’ snake oil
Until science comes up with a solution, we will keep getting older. And with age comes health issues—the inevitable consequence of enzymes drying up, tendons tightening, and muscles loosening. Like many people my age, I’m… more
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More tempting than Cinnabon
During the past week, I binge watched two series of Everest: Beyond the limit and listened to the audiobook of ‘Into thin air’ by John Krakauer. I highly recommended both, even if you have no interest in… more
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Kidney beans
A few years ago, I developed a kidney stone. It started — or at least the pain started — while I was at the gym. I felt a niggling pain in my back like I’d… more
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What happens when you get older?
I keep catch myself thinking like an ‘old person’. More than one I’ve thought “perhaps we should go for dinner a bit earlier, you know before the restaurant gets really busy and the service gets… more
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Going with the flow
While I was hiding from COVID, I spent a lot of time writing. Usually, using one of the three fountain pens I acquired during the first month of ‘sheltering-in-place.’ Of course, I could have written… more