A couple of years back, I finished writing a story, The Homemade Home. It’s about an unfortunate child called Barnaby, who struggles to grow up in a world mostly populated by cruel, greedy and insensitive adults. It’s definitely a sombre ... [Read more]
Writing
A Misreading of Somebody Else’s Nut Tree
I recently picked up a used copy of Somebody Else’s Nut Tree by Ruth Krauss and Maurice Sendak (Harper & Brothers, 1958) on Abebooks. It’s one of the many books Krauss and Sendak collaborated on together, as I’d discovered reading ... [Read more]
Bertolt… or How to be Alone in Difficult Times
Bertolt is a tree and a book. Bertolt, the tree, is an enormous, old oak who must be five-hundred years old. Bertolt, the book by Jacques Goldstyn, measures barely 6″ x 8″ and, at the time of writing, is just three years old. And yet this ... [Read more]
Making Mistakes Working from Home
A two-minute motivation if you’re new to working from home. The colorful picture below is not an advertisement for my book (illustrated by Aubrey Roemer), The Flowerdrops. Rather, it’s a small selection of some of the failures ... [Read more]