being and becoming in the world
The words of: A S Byatt, Anne Tyler, Anthony Doerr, Candia McWilliam, Evelyn Waugh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gabriel García Márquez, Janice Galloway, John Macmurray, Julian Barnes, Margaret Drabble, Penelope Fitzgerald, Raymond … Continue reading Some lessons
‘If You Wake at Midnight’ by Andrew Marriott is a book that anybody who has interest in prescribed harm must read. My career was as an NHS doctor in psychiatry. I … Continue reading ‘If You Wake at Midnight’
Professor Robert Howard, who I have never met, has an exceptional ability to get me wrong. This passage by Gabriel García Márquez was written well before the advent of social … Continue reading Exceptional ability
This passage [which I have edited] by Gabriel García Márquez was written well before the advent of social media, but seems remarkably prescient: From time to time I become aware that … Continue reading The other me
This passage [which I have edited] by Gabriel García Márquez was written well before the advent of social media, but seems remarkably prescient: From time to time I become aware that … Continue reading “the other me”
It was sad to read that Dani Garavelli, who I consider to be one of Scotland’s finest columnists, has decided that her column, printed in the Scotland on Sunday, 4th … Continue reading bows out
