What traditions have you not kept that your parents had? My dad never told my mum how much he earned. This always created mistrust and friction. Why did he do it? All part of his power game. When he discovered I shared a bank account with my wife, he warned me of my folly. IContinue reading “Honesty is best.”
Monthly Archives: July 2024
Learn to say ‘no!’
What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being? Say it every time someone wants you to do something that they present, as being for your benefit, but actually is for theirs. Examples. The extra beer you don’t want to drink, or helping you don’t want to eat, or film that goes onContinue reading “Learn to say ‘no!’”
Open All Night
Spillwords.com presents: Open All Night, flash fiction by Clive La Pensée, who started writing on the history of beer and became a world … Source: Open All Night
Classical music defines western culture
What is your favorite genre of music? Four chords. Dot dot dot dash in morse code. The famous V for victory. An unprepossessing start to a piece of music, but 20 minutes later Beethoven has us in a defining moment in Western civilisation. It defined the revolutionary forces sweeping away the defunct aristocratic rulers. ItContinue reading “Classical music defines western culture”
Laborare est orare
Words are my business, and then there is writers’ block. If nothing appears interesting and grabs my attention, how should it interest someone else. Well, I had the block big time and then I walked down a street in Liverpool that has a Catholic Primary School – not uncommon in Liverpool – and there wasContinue reading “Laborare est orare”
Clive La Pensée 