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Is it possible that for a few moments, as you read this, you can pretend it's already Monday (29)? I've been tagged for the Blog Tour Award (I wonder what I'll win?!!) and I was given that date. But, I write on Saturdays and I didn't want to do another one so I'm...

This week I received another rejection letter; all part and parcel of being a writer. It's not the first and it won't be the last. I could give you an extensive list of famous authors who have been rejected multiple times, (eg J, K. Rowlings) and who then went on to...

What a weird, upside down world we inhabit. In South Africa, a rich, famous white guy kills his girlfriend, is only sentenced to five years jail and is getting out having done about 10 months. (I can hear my not-so-white friends saying, "Nothing changes.") Our...

I woke up this morning with this thought ringing in my head: I want to take the family to Disneyland. It's not the first time I've thought it. The Old Boy and I had the fun of going there in the 70s and we always said that when we had kids we'd take them there, too....

I nearly didn't get a blog up today. Several days ago I received notification from my provider that a comment had been posted on one of my older blogs. It was a typical piece of spam: just a series of links to who knows what. When I went to this blog-site to deal with...

I  dream every night and often it's quite entertaining. Last night was no exception. I was the lead detective (of course) in a case involving some sort of espionage in a big business. We had one guy undercover, working at one of the desks in a very busy office. He was...