Having been given carte blanche from you lovely lot to keep on keeping on – and that fact that both Marks & Spencers and Aldi have already got their Christmas aisles groaning with mince pies and Lebkuchen respectively – I am happy to share with you my Christmas wish lists. Here are the movies and [...]
Archive for September, 2011
Wish Lists
Posted in Books, Movies, tagged books, film, movies, reading, watching, wish list on September 25, 2011 | 11 Comments »
The State of the Blog
Posted in Blogging, Writing, tagged audit, bloggers, blogging, blogs, stats, Writing on September 18, 2011 | 14 Comments »
Do you remember the days when blogging was new and you’d breathlessly check your stats every half an hour to see if they’d crept up to 22 views? Or that shaky feeling when you pressed “publish” and sent your thoughts out into the world? Or the tingling joy when your new post got its first [...]
Turning Up
Posted in fiction, The Novel, Writing, tagged brain, Charlie Rose, Chuck Close, creativity, fiction, Oliver Sachs, writers, Writing on September 12, 2011 | 7 Comments »
If you have 60 minutes to spare, here’s an amazing video on creativity and the brain with neurologist Oliver Sachs and artists Chuck Close and Richard Serra: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11264 About halfway in, Chuck Close says something that electrified me. Charlie Rose asks him about inspiration and how that figures in his art and Close says, to great [...]
On Women and Work
Posted in Children, Discrimination, Family, Feminism, Going back to work, Living in Germany, Working, tagged equality, Feminism, Gender, Legislation, work on September 1, 2011 | 16 Comments »
Still loving work, so that’s a good thing. My kids are on summer break and I have imported my lovely mother from South Africa to be au pair. She is doing a stirling job: they get up around 9am, lurk in their pyjamas until lunch, eat and then head out at a leisurely pace to [...]
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