Information overkill
I keep harping on about how little we care for the spoken word nowadays compared to the past centuries, even just before the TV era; but what we have to contend with today is information overload. And...
View ArticleWicked pleasures of word play
“It’s a Sunday,” the little girl explained. “Sundae with an E,” her brother pedantically clarified. “The challenge is,” the little girl continued, unabated, “to keep the sundae in the Sunday. It’s a...
View ArticleThe power of now
You have to stay in the now… …blah blah. I have Erkhart Tolle‘s book, and a few other books too, all encouraging me to harness the power of “now”. Only I never finished reading them. But there is one...
View ArticleWord play is sword play
I was listening to the morning programme on BBC Radio 4, while squeezing oranges and munching on a banana dunked in homemade raw nut butter. They were interviewing a UK government official and a...
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