A typical news item might read as follows: Today in a town somewhere a man deliberately drove a vehicle into a crowd of bystanders. Two people were injured and the man was arrested. This event is not thought to be terrorism related. There is a necessity to draw attention to the difference between an individual …
Monthly archives: July 2017
today’s lesson
So there are two important stories that I want to put down here. Maybe one day Jack and Lottie will read them and remember quite how many times I repeated these stories to them. So for years and years now our family has struggled to carry an emotional cauldron. The source of heat has been …
telling stories
So it appears that I tell stories. When my children ask me a question I say, if I’m in a good mood, do you want the short answer? The medium one or the proper one? And the good ones are always narratives. I get surprised when people point out to me that I’ve gone off …