A Ghost Story I should have reburied it without a word to anyone. Now my garden was filled with archaeologists, and nobody needs that. When we moved in, Louis and I, the garden was overgrown and had not been touched in years, so we started to tidy it up. I…

Exercises to build that creative muscle — Generating ideas is a matter of practise, just like any other skill. To start building up that creative muscle, or to get back into shape after a dry patch, here are a couple of exercises to get you going. 1. Ten Titles Do you happen across evocative phrases and think “That would make…

Sometimes I have a dream that is a complete story, beginning, middle and end, dreamt as if I am watching and feeling a movie, but more, as dreams are always more. That more can never be expressed in words, but the dream can be somewhat portrayed in words. Here is…

Reading Paul Auster’s memoir ‘Winter Journal’, I came across a moment when the elderly father of a friend gave him some advice on growing old. “You have to stay lovable.” This chimed with me because at the time I was dealing with people who had embraced the opposite way of…